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Oil
Painting Gallery
(Click on thumbnail photos, below, to see larger
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"Self Portrait"
Oil on Board
14.5" x 17.5"
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"Four Triangles"
Oil on Linen
24" x 30" x 1.5"
“Four
Triangles” has
two Xs, which create the design format, using three neutral gray (visual half
way mixtures of violet and yellow, orange and blue, and red and green)
gradations from dark to light. Hot, vibrant, euphoric colors weave in and out of
geometric interplay to bring about optical illusions, while the patterns
continue on the outside four edges of this intensity contrast painting. The rich
brushstroke is so fresh it still looks wet, bringing the luminous colors to
life.
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30"x 24" x 1.5"
“Two Chevrons” uses a neutral gray (visual half
way color between red and green) background to organize this intensity
contrast geometric composition. Complementary color placement creates multiple
triangular shapes within the two chevrons, which interact to keep the zigzag
design to move around the flat surface. Brushstroke textures and continuing
the pattern on the outside four edges of the painting makes the luminous
colors stretch and contract, bringing them to life.
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“Three Reflections” has horizontal and vertical
elements that reflect a wooded landscape abstraction. The repetition of
expressive color and richly textured surfaces shift and overlap, filling
in the surface. Use of white in contrast to the vibrant colors keeps the
painting luminous, airy and moving, as in nature.
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"Ten Boxes"
“Ten Boxes” is best
viewed a few steps back from the painting while squinting your eyes.
The viewer will see the small square in the center which is inside
another square, which is within a diamond shape and within yet another
diamond shape and so on. By changing horizontal, vertical and diagonal
lines of shapes, the small color gradations from dark to light or from
one color to end in another, bring about this optical illusion. Most
colors are not used more than once. Thick oil paint brushstroke marks
and the juxtapositions of hue, value and intensity contrasts create a
kaleidoscope like movement to interplay with the primary and secondary
shapes within this geometric painting.
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“Untitled
Diptych” features three large areas of squeegeed paint that moves horizontally
over the two canvases. The poured chocolate and raspberry colors of
curvilinear action lines create a broken heart, a universal emotional reality.
The paint that explodes over the two canvases from these lines during the act
of painting spontaneously, provides all the organic shapes to make the balance
of design on the expansive field. No two shapes are the same. Hot, vibrant,
euphoric color weave in and out to mend the broken heart, and fill the
surface. The expressive action painting, it’s textured surface, and rich
brushwork is so fresh that the paint still looks wet.
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Oil on Canvas
87"
X 137" framed
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"The Flag"
Oil on Canvas
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Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas
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Links
of interest to Dorene
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