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work this all out in advance,” said Albright. “It’s really hard, sometimes, to have all the colors that touch be harmonious.”
Unlikely scenes turn into pleasing forms in the artist’s hands. A work in progress is a composite of the different kinds of construction trash in an adjoining yard. A sink with an odd pipe still attached catches her fancy, so this shape will dominate the final painting.
Other paintings are equally whimsical. Some in her new style are Howya Doin?, a painting of a mountain boy who comes back to check on his grandfather; Ma’s Place, a picture of a woman surrounded by every garden and yard doo-dad imaginable, the soul of contentment in the knowledge that no gimmick has escaped her; Mountain Stream, which uses natural forms but bright acrylic colors that nature never dreamed of; Optics 1, which she intends to be the start of a series on the effects of light and color on the eye.
Albright also has some paintings in a more traditional style. Familiar to all Rappahannock people is the scene at Massie’s Corner. This she has captured in misty, rainy spring-day colors in her picture, Left Turn.
She has some still-lifes, using garden vegetables; one with cabbage, one with onions and there are some paintings with flowers. A picture on an easel before her
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