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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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Kom Ombo

Kom Ombo

March 1, 2011 by Margret Short

Painting of Kom Ombo made with oil paint on gold leaf

Kom Ombo 8x10   Oil on Gold Leaf © Margret E. Short 2011 Lessons from the Pharaoh's Tomb, Part Two It seems perfectly fitting to use gold leaf as a base support for the ancient Egyptian pigment project paintings, especially considering so many antiquities are made of precious metals such as gold. First I applied twenty three carat gold … [Read more...] about Kom Ombo

Tagged With: azurite, Egypt, gold leaf, Kom Ombo, Nile, pigments, red iron oxide, Sobek, yellow ochre

Moon Over Kom Ombo

January 24, 2009 by Margret Short

  This temple of Kom Ombo is set dramatically on a hill overlooking a bend in the Nile. This Greco-Roman style temple is Egypt's only double temple where everything is doubled and perfectly symmetrical along a central axis. The twin entrances, twin courts, and twin colonnades are all dedicated to both Sobek, the crocodile god and … [Read more...] about Moon Over Kom Ombo

Tagged With: azurite, crocodile god, Egypt, Haroeris the solar disc, Kom Ombo, pigments, red iron ozide, Sobek

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