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May 15, 2019
Media: Oil
Size: 14x11 in
Stained glass has always fascinated me. I saw this small stained glass lamp years ago in Logan, Utah where I was interviewing for a position at Utah State University. (The university made the terrible mistake of not offering me the job! :) ) By the way, the job was not in the art school! After painting a larger such lamp a couple years ago (see Tiffany-like here on DPW), I decided to do this smaller one. I was especially attracted to the dragonflies on the shade. The challenge was the same as with the larger lamp: most of the light came from the interior of the still life model, rather than from the outside. Then there was the challenge of painting all those tiny pieces of glass. The other objects in the painting are there for support and interest, but clearly the main character is the lamp itself. Because of the work involved, I am hereby retiring from painting stained glass lamps, unless I should decide to come out of retirement. :) In the "first draft" of this painting I included a tiny Buddha. I was not happy with it, so I replaced it with the Irish teacup. Perhaps hundreds of years from now the Metropolitan Museum in New York will remove it from the wall, and a researcher will remove a layer of paint and discover that Blackmon couldn't paint Buddha. :)Stained glass has always fascinated me. I saw this small stained glass lamp years ago in Logan, Utah where I was interviewing for a position at Utah State University. (The university made the terrible mistake of not offering me the job! :) ) By the way, the job was not in the art school! After painting a larger such lamp a couple years ago (see Tiffany-like here on DPW), I decided to do this smaller one. I was especially attracted to the dragonflies on the shade. The challenge was the same as with the larger lamp: most of the light came from the interior of the still life model, rather than from the outside. Then there was the challenge of painting all those tiny pieces of glass. The other objects in the painting are there for support and interest, but clearly the main character is the lamp itself. Because of the work involved, I am hereby retiring from painting stained glass lamps, unless I should decide to come out of retirement. :) In the "first draft" of this painting I included a tiny Buddha. I was not happy with it, so I replaced it with the Irish teacup. Perhaps hundreds of years from now the Metropolitan Museum in New York will remove it from the wall, and a researcher will remove a layer of paint and discover that Blackmon couldn't paint Buddha. :) |
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