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.

oil painting

A Basilisk and a Rooster Walked into a Bar

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Many of the quirkiest stories I have told have been right here in this blog during my Lessons from the Low Countries series.  Remember the one about the red haired man and the basilisk? If you recall, a basilisk is the legendary reptile, hatched by a serpent (or toad, depending on the source) from a rooster’s egg, and is so revolting, if it gazes … [Read more...] about A Basilisk and a Rooster Walked into a Bar

Copper on the Easel

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Several years ago, I did a series of paintings on sheets of copper of various sizes, which was enormously fun. Here are two from that series.     Well, now here it is 2013, and it's time for another challenge with a new pigment series. This new project poking at my mad scientist self is more expansive though, and will be … [Read more...] about Copper on the Easel

Mystery of the Medlar-Revealed

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If you are like me, you most likely are scratching your noggin, asking, "what the heck is a medlar?" Well, I asked that very same question many times years ago. Often while looking at paintings in museums or browsing through art books, I noticed an odd looking nut-like fruity exotic thing in compositions of Dutch still lifes, mostly from the 17th … [Read more...] about Mystery of the Medlar-Revealed

Gifts for the Spider Woman

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Visions of the Southwest Gifts for the Spider Woman By Margret E. Short, OPA, AWAM © 2012, 8x8 Oil on Panel Lessons from the Spider Woman, a pigment project by Margret E. Short American Women Artists, Visions of the Southwest Exhibition Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona November 3, 2012 through January 6, … [Read more...] about Gifts for the Spider Woman