Patricia Oblack

Yesterday's Promise, Abstract Painting

2020

Artist Comments
Artist Patricia Oblack offers a dramatic abstract landscape with beige and rustic accents. In her process, Patricia starts with a black surface. She then weaves in secondary colors using her palette knife, allowing the paint to split without destroying the integrity of one another. Her blending technique creates a tactile & visceral surface filled with markings and subtle texture.

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.

Words that describe this painting: wood, visceral, abstract, moody, dramatic, mark-making, palette knife, texture, abstract, landscape, acrylic painting, green

Yesterday's Promise
Patricia Oblack
Acrylic painting on wood
Finished black edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2020
36 in. h x 48 in. w x 2 in. d
11 lbs. 0 oz.