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<\/a>It shook me as I walked to work through a post-Impressionistic winter day toward Portland Magazine<\/i>\u2019s headquarters at 165 State Street. While the late Paul Black hadn\u2019t actually painted our building (see bottom photo), he\u2019d helped me see it.<\/p>\nMemorably, he\u2019s helped all of us see Portland, particularly on days that dissolve in snowflakes and stand time on end. Though we sadly lost him to brain cancer on November 19, Black is just getting started as an influence, his paintings too sweeping to be confined by a frame.<\/p>\n
In On The Road<\/em>, Jack Kerouac writes that raindrops connect us by \u201cchain touch.\u201d Black\u2019s snowflakes share the magic. During an interview, he once told us, \u201cIt\u2019s every color,\u201d not just white. \u201cI always put a little yellow ochre to warm things up. When van Gogh went from Holland to Paris and saw the Impressionists painting with pure, uncut colors, he \u2018took the tobacco juice out of his paintings.\u2019 I more or less put tobacco juice into my paintings. Adding a little brown into the snow or sky gives it an antique feel, because the paintings are not real.\u201d What\u2019s real is the way Black\u2019s snow makes us feel.<\/p>\n His wife, Irena H. Black, loved Paul\u2019s love for snow. \u201cI think he just knew how to make people feel warm around it. When the first snowfall arrived this season, I could just picture him driving all around, taking photographs,\u201d chasing the snow \u201cso he could paint perfect pictures of it.\u201d<\/p>\n To purchase a Paul Black oil on canvas, visit Fore Street Gallery, which has many of his works on view through January. And don\u2019t forget to visit the Portland Regency Hotel, where a number of his canvases are on stage. It\u2019s incredibly romantic dining there during a snowstorm. Even when the fireplace isn\u2019t flickering, Black masterfully sets the mood. We are all lucky to part of Paul Black\u2019s world.<\/p>\n Winterguide 2015 It shook me as I walked to work through a post-Impressionistic winter day toward Portland Magazine\u2019s headquarters at 165 State Street. While the late Paul Black hadn\u2019t actually painted our building (see bottom photo), he\u2019d helped me see it. Memorably, he\u2019s helped all of us see Portland, particularly on days that dissolve in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-10295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-winterguide-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14442,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/14442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"