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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...
Paul Jacks
Mar 8, 20202 min read
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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...
Paul Jacks
Jun 6, 20193 min read
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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...
Paul Jacks
Mar 5, 20183 min read
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Mantis Man of the Musconetcong --cryptid art
Three years ago I was on the television show "Monsters and Mysteries in America", having been a witness to, well, an odd "apparition"...
Paul Jacks
Feb 27, 20182 min read
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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...
Paul Jacks
Jan 27, 20183 min read
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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...
Paul Jacks
Aug 18, 20172 min read
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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...
Paul Jacks
Aug 9, 20173 min read
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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...
Paul Jacks
Aug 3, 20173 min read
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