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Review
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Don Black paints with watercolors and acrylic on paper and other backgrounds. The third of his show that are acrylic images represent a new medium for Black, resulting in textured surfaces. The colors in these pictures also tend to be hotter and more aggressive in nature than the watercolors are.
I felt, in looking at Black’s work, that he has a dynamic personality that, expressed in his paintings, would lead one soon to recognize one of his works if seen in another place. I understand that he has moved from realism to abstraction. One result of this change is that his pictures often have structural elements and some of his titles suggest he has a landscape in mind.
“Mind Portal II”, acrylic on paper mounted on canvas, has every color in the rainbow, combined in a way as to be more modest than a number of the other more vibrant others. It is attractively restful in effect.
“On a Clear Day”, a watercolor and one of the larger of his works,
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