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Margret E. Short Fine Arts

Margret E. Short Fine Arts

Portland, Oregon artist Margret Short - a modern day master of 17th Century Dutch art using the chiaroscuro technique to create still life and floral paintings.

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Dutch Art

The Metamorphosis of Ray Mar

April 15, 2010 by Margret Short

old oil painting of large bridge

Raymar Art Fine Art Competition Finalist, February 2010   Metamorphosis, 12x12, Oil on Linen, © Margret E. Short 2009, OPA. AWA Collection, Grant and Elizabeth Beech Metamorphosis is from my Lessons Series Project collection of eleven paintings which I completed in 2006-07.  All eleven were based on the color palette from … [Read more...] about The Metamorphosis of Ray Mar

Tagged With: Dutch Art, finalist, Informed Collector, Lessons from the Low Countries, Lessons Series pigment project, Margret Short, pigments, Ray Mar Art, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art

The Golden Age

September 25, 2006 by Margret Short

oil painting still life scene of vases on table

The Golden Age, 12 x12 oil on linen. Copyright Margret E. Short, 2006 … [Read more...] about The Golden Age

Tagged With: 17th century Dutch, Dutch Art, Margret Short, The Golden Age

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