tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015064279097458912024-03-13T11:09:35.256-05:00Patricia Keller PaintingsThe purpose of my blog is to let my friends in on what I've been up to with my artistic endeavors. Time doesn't always allow me to publish some of my newest ideas and artwork on my website: www.patkeller.com as quickly as I would like. This page allows me to show a few new images and some of my thoughts that went into them, as well as some personal notes that might have some bearing on the artwork.Pat Kellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151368989962098152noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501506427909745891.post-82783923609253499152012-06-18T15:18:00.001-05:002012-06-18T15:18:20.156-05:00Only An Apparition<i>Spectrum...</i>from the Latin, meaning apparition. Oh, to be able to experience beyond our human limits the visual spectrum which narrowly resides in the wavelengths betweem 380-750.<br />
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We can thank Roger Bacon and Isaac Newton for turning scientific eyes to our visual perception. With the later discovery of infrared, ultraviolet, and x-rays, we can begin to grasp our human limitations. Artists who emphasize expression through color will always struggle to find ways of allowing the infinite variations to play together to create the <i>apparition</i>. Viewers of artwork will respond differently to an artist's use of pigments, depending on each person's color perception. Inventing an apparition from fantasy landscapes like those described by J.R.R. Tolkien, can be an entertaining exercise in imagination and playing with color. His rich descriptions of the River Withywindle invoke visions of landscapes inhabited by fantastic beings--landscapes which need not adhere to our limited day-to-day experiences of light and color. This is Valley of the Withywindle from J.R.R. Tolkien's <i>Fellowship of the Ring.</i><br />
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