Go to http://currentinfishers.com/art-city/ to read the article online about my current art exhibit in Fishers Town Hall. The show has become so popular that the hours have been extended to Saturdays from 10-2 for the next three weeks.
My wife has wanted me to be like Rembrandt or Frida Kahlo and do an annual self-portrait. My first one can be seen on my January 2, 2012 post. The second is January 20, 2013. The third would be January 9, 2014. Here is my 2015 portrait.
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My one-man art show in Fishers City Hall opens on Friday, January 9. This past Saturday, my wife and I helped the arts council hang 45 of my paintings. Here is the invitation to the event.
The Fishers Arts Council presents
the 2015 season of
Art in City Hall
Featuring a solo exhibition of Greenwood artist
Tom Slack
“Reflections”
Opening Reception
Friday, January 9, 2015, 6:00 pm
Fishers Town Hall in Fishers, Indiana
No admission charge – Open to the public
About “Reflections”
“The shiny reflections in wet roads, sunlight through flower petals, the highlighted colors that are more easily seen, and the halo on an edge of a silhouette are all examples of “glow.” Rather than concentrate on the actual objects, I create a feeling or atmosphere and then work the representation of the items in afterwards. I have attempted to portray this “glow” in my paintings.” – Tom Slack
Here we are hanging the paintings on Saturday:
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This will be my final painting for 2014. I am very intrigued by Venice. Here is a portrayal of a gondola in the shade and the city in the sunshine. The shade is portrayed by a blueish color, the sunlight more towards yellow. The boat is big and at the bottom, the city is small and in the back. This is atmospheric perspective which gives depth to the painting.
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I like to do rainy scenes. This shows the reflections of cars and buildings along the road to the Indiana State Capitol Building.
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Every year my wife, Norene, plants a vegetable garden. She’s most successful with tomatoes and carrots. The tomatoes are beautiful and round, while the carrots are gnarled and twisted, not like the beautiful ones in the grocery store produce department. We think her vegetables are very beautiful, though, and enjoy seeing them laid out on our kitchen counter.
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I really love planting wildflowers. It’s interesting to look out the window and see the bees buzzing around the blossoms or hummingbirds getting nectar. My favorite thing, though, is when I see finches in the flowers. They’re so beautiful. They like to eat the petals. I’ve wanted to portray one of them for a long time. They blend in with the background most of the time so they’re hard to see. This painting shows a finch eating blossoms.
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Venice is a beautiful city in Italy that is built on stilts. People travel by boats. Tourists like to ride in gondolas, like the boat shown above. When painting water, do reflections of the solid object above and put the reflections under it. The colors should come from the original item. The waves make reflections wiggle, so the lines of a reflection move back and forth.
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