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Paul Jacks
Mar 8, 20202 min read
What The Trees Showed Me -- hiking and painting
I don't know if it was serendipity or coincidence, but a day after a late summer's hike to a local Reservoir --with autumn closing in, as...
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Paul Jacks
Jun 6, 20193 min read
From The Car Window -- painting and driving
Driving home yesterday I realized that several of my works have been inspired by scenes seen through my car window. For some time now I...
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Paul Jacks
Mar 5, 20183 min read
Wry Smiles and Robberies. (Painting nudes is risky).
The first nude I ever painted was based on a photo spread in Playboy Magazine. Normally, I only read that periodical for the articles of...
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Paul Jacks
Jan 27, 20183 min read
revisiting Rattlesnake Meadow -- landscape photography and painting
I came across an early clip of The Rolling Stones the other day. Just 18 months into their career, they were on the Mike Douglas Show in...
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Paul Jacks
Aug 18, 20172 min read
Light and Longing -- A summer fades
There is a certain kind of suspended tension to the last days of summer. A clinging culmination slowly losing hold. Sure, Cicadas take...
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Paul Jacks
Aug 9, 20173 min read
Clear skies are creepy -- why my skies have drama
A few years ago a friend and I were talking about the movie The Truman Show and its controlled bubbled atmosphere when he mentioned how...
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Paul Jacks
Aug 3, 20173 min read
Painting the Last Day of Summer; North Beach, Sandy Hook NJ.
At high noon on a hazy autumn equinox two years ago, I was standing on North Beach, Sandy Hook bathed in a surreal light only that season...
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Paul Jacks
Jan 17, 20172 min read
Serenity in Storm King. Photos and The Psychedelic Furs.
On a sleepy afternoon last autumn I drove up to the Storm King Art Center in New York's Hudson Valley. A sprawling outdoor sculpture park...
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