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

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

Offerings to the Spider Woman

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  Visions of the Southwest Exhibition Offerings to the Spider Woman By Margret E. Short, OPA, AWAM © 2012, 13x15  Oil on Linen, 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 … [Read more...] about Offerings to the Spider Woman

Color Studies

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Beads and Dogwood is a 6x6 study done with the color theme described in the previous post. If you will look closely, you can see how few color mixtures are in the composition. The background was toned with Graham burnt sienna then allowed to dry. Lots of smooshing and brushstrokes were left visible so as to give lots of character to the background … [Read more...] about Color Studies