Dwight V. Strong
Puddlestone Lake, California
* The quotes are Dwight's descriptions.
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| “Like most of Yosemite, here is a grand beauty that is too familiar, so that the painter has a problem – how to show it new.” | "Mendocino is a small town with big views that challenge the feelings of the viewer and the insight of the painter. No painting can truly show it all.” | ||
| "The great glacier that gouged Yosemite out of the granite heart of the Sierra Nevada scooped this series of strange looping channels in the north wall – a painter’s challenge." | "This mountain is so strange, unseen it is unbelievable and it gathers so many of the lights and darks of nature, sometimes rosy, some others opal colored, sometimes blanketed with clouds, and more often than you might think, it has a misty wreath, soft and translucent.”" | ||
| “This impressive church stands tall and isolated in Arizona, often windy which makes painting a physical problem.” | Dwight and I painted in Bodie, California when we stopped nearby on a trip to Mammoth Lakes (we took the scenic route). Dwight’s painting shows the tourists wandering about, giving life to the ghost town. -- Rob | ||
Puddlestone Lake, California |
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| "This bone-chilling morning, we set out with the Grand Master of the California School., Milford Zornes. What a wonderful feeling to paint under his scrutiny, especially since his style of composition has a similarity to mine. The problem with painting large simple areas--like lakes--heaved into view. This was solvable by color and reflections. But the bare building wall. Putting people there would shift the center of interest into three places. I decided to leave the wall alone." |
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