Patricia Oblack

Celebrate Enthusiasm, Abstract Painting

2017

Artist Comments
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.

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: abstract, earth tones, abstract, non-representational, acrylic painting, yellow, black

Celebrate Enthusiasm
Patricia Oblack
Acrylic painting on wood
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2017
24 in. h x 24 in. w x 1.5 in. d
4 lbs. 0 oz.