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Short Take: Foreground Darks

Gregory Manchess

Recently in one of my online classes for SmArt School, a few students were having trouble creating visual interest in their compositions. The pieces lacked depth. The culprit wasn’t the design of the main elements, but the distribution of values. Generally, the students think of the background as dark, but they also wanted to put their main subject in dark clothing, and all the darks in the subject were the same darks as in the…

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The Enchanted Brush Exhibition

Arnie Fenner

July 14, 2025 - If you're traveling in the Midwest this summer you should make time in your schedule to visit the 2025 The Enchanted Brush: Legendary exhibition curated by Dan Chudzinski for the Mazza Museum's Lea Gallery at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. Beginning with a beautiful poster painted by Scott Gustafson (shown at the top), artists in the exhibit include Iris Compiet, Allen Douglas, Quintin Gleim, James Herrmann, Kelley Hensing, Elliot Lang, Ashly Lovett, Don Maitz, Jason Mowry, Reiko Murakami, Colin Nitta, Kristine Poole, Ruth Sanderson, Danny Schwartz, Chris Sickles, Andrew Sides, Melissa Stanley, Alex Stone, Jeremy Wilson, and Janny Wurts. Above: Art by Elliot Lang. Above: Art by Jason Mowry. The show is free to the public and a reception will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, July 15, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., with a…

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