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Dawn Lundquist: Hawaiian Waterfalls

The bright flowers in the foreground create a powerful framing effect. It may seem as though these garlands hang from a window frame and all that is missing is someone’s hand stretching out and pushing them aside to clear the view. This is another exotic motif, this time of a Japanese origin: if you examine [...]

 
Brent Lynch: Cigar Bar

Brent Lynch is a highly acclaimed artist whose works hang on the walls of many art galleries (check out Ida Victoria Art Gallery and Tutt Street Fine Art Gallery) and corporate and private collections. He works in a variety of genres and apparently takes pride in being a versatile painter. His art exudes deep spiritualism, [...]

 
Dawn Lundquist: Roosters

Exuberant colors again convey the exotic, tropical climate of Hawaii. In a way the roosters are not dissimilar to the flowers. Both display expressed decorative elements; the petals’ shape resembles the combs’ and the tails’. But there is a fundamental difference between the two: the flowers are passive and languorous whereas the roosters look aggressive [...]

 
Dawn Lundquist: Birds of Paradise and Angel's Trumpets

Dawn Lundquist is an American artist painting Hawaiian seascapes, various flora and other, less conventional themes. She publishes her work on her website, Lundquiststudios, which offers for sale original pieces as well as prints and Giclees. Read more about Dawn Lundquist on her about page. In today’s review I would like to discuss the artist’s [...]

 
[Art Interpretation Guide] The Power of Imagination Part 3

In the previous post we talked about a powerful method to arrive at effective ideas: completing the painting in your mind. In this post we will talk about a directly opposite way, one of undoing the painting by using your imagination and other tools. Although it may seem that simply reversing the first technique would [...]

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