Patricia Oblack

Metropolitan Blue

2014

Artist Comments
This abstract work presents various shades of light and dark. I achieved layers with the flat surfaces and sharp edges of my palette knives. Every painting has a Voice, inspired by the music played during creation. The Voice of this piece is Coldplay's CDs Parachutes (2000) and X (2005). The work is on 20x30 300 lb cold-press Fabriano paper. Two edges are deckled and two edges are straight, with a 2 3/8 border for easy framing. The actual painting measures 25.5x17.5.

About the Artist
As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon Gnagy’s New Television Art Instruction Book. The exercise led to a love of art, and in 1962 she begged her mother to purchase lessons from Art Instruction, Inc. in Minneapolis. Within a few weeks, a box arrived with art supplies, including her first palette knife. Patricia finished every lesson, and was in good company–another student of the school was renowned Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. From that humble beginning, Patricia became a lifelong artist, currently creating dark, earthy abstracts, which she paints with the same palette knife from childhood.

Metropolitan Blue
Patricia Oblack
Acrylic painting on paper
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2014
30 in. h x 20 in. w
0 lbs. 12 oz.