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Fireside
Friends by John Weiss
The dining room in a colonial bed &
breakfast provided the inspiration for this latest work by John
Weiss. "When you walk into a room and the fire is lit," he says,
"it's the first thing you notice. My next thought goes to who should
be enjoying this fire." "The challenge of this painting was placing
a pair of black Labrador retrievers in such a dark area. The goal
was to capture the glow of the fire, so, it was necessary for everything
else in the composition to be rather muted. When you look into the
shadows, you discover clues about your surroundings. The softness
of the light enhances the coziness and character of the historic
structure. I wanted to capture how walking into this room was like
walking into a novel, an escape into another world."
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