Patricia Oblack Art

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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...

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"My work is completely in the direction of abstract, but many viewers experience other views," says Patricia. "In this piece, the name tells the story that wh...

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Lines from my palette knife, striking over and into submerged colors, lots of energy as in sports, with suggestions of streets ; bridges from a busy city. Yet, there is a sense of calm and comfort.

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As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon Gnagy...

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"Weatherworn walls and fresco texture abound on the face of this painting," says Patricia. "Time passed by leaving bits of color to hold onto their space in t...

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Patricia builds her compositions intuitively with palette knives, blending colors and developing texture directly on the surface of her panels. She poetically describes the composition of this painting as "greys and black spreading apart to let in the sunset."

About the Artist
As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon Gnagy...

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Patricia builds her compositions intuitively with palette knives, blending colors and developing texture directly on the surface of her panels. In this painti...

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Patricia builds her compositions intuitively with palette knives, blending colors and developing texture directly on the surface of her panels. In this piece, lines connected by dots reference our interconnected relationships and voices speaking with each other.

About the Artist
As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon Gnagy...

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Patricia builds her compositions intuitively with palette knives, blending colors and developing texture directly on the surface of her panels. She says this ...

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"Think of the surface of Voices like a crowd of people, all whispering conversations across a crowded room," says Patricia. "Lines, some very thin, others str...

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Patricia describes this painting as a "three color separation blended into one." She says she worked to create balance between the sections to impart a soothi...

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Patricia builds her compositions intuitively with palette knives, blending colors and developing texture directly on the surface of her panels. She describes ...

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Patricia enthusiastically explains that "the lower half of this painting suggests the dark of night, while various strokes refer to energy created from rockets flying up and exploding into the night sky full of thunder and lightening explosions." Using palette knives, she rapidly applied yellow, orange and black in this boisterous modern painting.

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As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon...

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Part of Patricia's signature series of modern abstract paintings, in which she blends colors and builds texture directly on the surface of the piece. "While I...

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Layer upon layer of color applied with my palette knives gives this small piece an amazing sense of power for its small size.

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As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon Gnagy...

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Music is my inspiration and every piece I paint has a "Voice". For this piece, I listened to Damien Rice's CD "9". The abstract bu...

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Horizontal blackness could suggest hills in darkness, but the viewer must decide.

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As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon Gnagy...

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Vertical strokes might suggest rain, soft teal green could be clouds full of money, but as in all my work, the viewer is always l...

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The majority of my paintings are nothing more than little miracles. On occasion it;s much like riding a bicycle down a one lane flat road on a sunny day, whi...

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My abstracts can be enjoyed by anyone, just let your imagination fly. Travel the surface with your eyes and relax in all of the blueness.

About the Artist
As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon Gnagy...

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I use my emotions and palette knife to guide me when creating a work of art. I view my abstract works as open to interpretation. My work is greatly influence...

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The inspiration for each and every painting is brought about through music ; every piece has a ;Voice; listed on the back which indicates the music involved in the process. When you receive the painting, read that information, purchase or obtain the music from a library etc. , listen to the music ; see what it inspires in yourself. Abstract is always open to the interpretations of the viewer. My work is acrylic with palette knife, there is a clear low sheen varnish on the front as well as the edges. Each piece is wired ; ready to install. This piece is composed of acrylic ; paint sticks on masonite board that is in a clear pine cradle with cross corner braces. This piece was painted to Clint Eastwood's - After Hours @ Carnegie Hall musical piece. Paint sticks are used for applying acrylic to the board which often results in multiple color sticks...

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This abstract work presents various shades of light and dark by way of its color selections. These layers are achieved from the flat surface and sharp edges ...

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The majority of my paintings are nothing more than little miracles. On occasion it;s much like riding a bicycle down a one lane flat road on a sunny day, whi...

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The inspiration for each and every painting is brought about through music ; every piece has a ;Voice; listed on the back which indicates the music involved in the process. When you receive the painting, read that information, purchase or obtain the music from a library etc. , listen to the music ; see what it inspires in yourself. Abstract is always open to the interpretations of the viewer. My work is acrylic with palette knife, there is a clear low sheen varnish on the front as well as the edges. Each piece is wired ; ready to install. Brace/frame on the back is 2; wide ; made of MDF. The masonite is cradled by way of this frame, edge painted black, face is varnished with low-sheen polyurethane. Diptych composed of two panels.

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.

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