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Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 20 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
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I spend a lot of time in the rural landscape of the high plains of the American west. There are many small towns long past their heyday with few or no residents. This building is in Lake Valley, New Mexico, once a thriving mining community. There are no residents other than a caretaker who the state pays to live there for a few months out of the year. Now a ghost town, Lake Valley was once a prosperous town of 4000 people. In 1893 a silver panic wiped out the town. Soon after in 1895 a huge fire destroyed the main street. There are only a few buildings left. I feel that it is important to document many of the old buildings in these towns before they disappear. I think of them as portraits of ordinary architecture.
Photography:Color on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:20 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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You can also find my work on https://www.flickr.com/photos/patinagal/ Following a long, rewarding career as an architect, and later 8 exciting years as a museum exhibit designer and builder, I now spend my time painting full time in my studio. I have always believed that the secret to keeping one's work fresh lies in experimentation and trying new things. Long an admirer of loose watercolor work I took a workshop with well known watercolor artist Andy Evansen. In watercolor I start and finish a painting in one sitting. Watercolor is fluid and transparent, and rather unforgiving. For me spontaneity and looseness is key. The whole trick is to work wet and allow the fluid paint colors to mix and merge, allow for soft edges, and maintain enough control to successfully complete a painting. I also roam the high plains of the western United States with my camera and photograph the old, weather beaten surfaces and patinas of buildings and vehicles. These rich surfaces and compositions provide inspirations for my layered oil and acrylic paintings. “Pentimento” is a term often used to define the revealing of painting or part of a painting that has been covered over by later painting. I have always been attracted to the history implied by this term. My painting method echoes this concept, involving constant experimentation as I make marks and cover them, leaving earlier marks revealed below later layers. As I add layers and work towards completion, the paintings eventually develop their own history.
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