Wednesday, November 6, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
DUTKO: Artist lives
in Eagle Crest,
east of Sisters
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classes and workshops while
raising her two daughters,
now in their 30s.
<I have always tried differ-
ent mediums, and sometimes
combined them,= she said. <I
did oils, then watercolor for
15 years, then left that and
went into acrylics, and from
that, I jumped back into doing
oils, but this time mixed with
a cold wax medium. Blended
with oil paint, it makes the
oils dry faster. You can apply
it with a palette knife, you
can do layers, and you can
collage into it, stamp into
it, and scrape through it.
It9s the perfect medium for
experimenting.=
Her work varies from
semi-abstract to pure
abstract depending on the
mood and her art encom-
passes many subject
matters.
<Sometimes I take old
watercolor paintings, mount
them to a board, and put
the medium on top of that.
Everything that I can do in
any other medium, I can do
in oil and cold wax. I can
even throw pastel in there,=
she said.
Dutko even makes her
own fine art papers, and uses
them to collage into her other
artwork. Several of her pieces
in the library show combine
collage with other media.
Her love of nature often
emerges in many of her paint-
ings, as she has many stored
memories of travels through-
out the United States and
abroad. Her approach is to
begin with creating spontane-
ous abstract textured surfaces
that eventually begin to show
her an idea and direction, step
by step, and with no final out-
come in mind. Sometimes a
turn of the canvas can pres-
ent a completely new idea.
This unpredictable approach
to painting is full of surprises.
Dutko enjoys taking risks,
believing that it leads to more
interesting art and growth as
an artist.
In the library, a large paint-
ing depicts an imaginary scene
from Portland9s Japanese
Garden. It9s called <Stay on
Path,= and, yes, there is a sign
that says <Stay on Path,= and
three crimson-robed Buddhist
monks are crossing a small
stream on a white bridge.
<When I was at the garden,
the sign caught my eye, and
served as a reminder of the
time I was taking classes at
the Shambhala Center for
Meditation in Portland. The
trees are an experiment in
mixing watercolor, acrylic
and gouache.=
<Siberian Cranes= was
inspired by a National
Geographic television
special.
<I was working on a
painting for my Christmas
card,= she said, when she
looked over at her TV and
saw the cranes.
She quickly shot a few
frames of the TV on her cam-
era, just so she could capture
the position of the birds, and
then she created her own
setting. A beautiful image
emerged, and she used it as
her greeting for the season.
Her next challenge is an
upcoming class in monoprint.
<Printmaking is about the
only art form I haven9t exper-
imented with,= she said. She
envisions prints as being the
next ideal background for her
experimental work.
D u t k o 9s w o r k w i l l
remain on display in the
library through the end of
November.
Dutko is a member of
Sisters Arts Association,
Dry Canyon Arts
Association, Lake Area
Artists, Oregon Society of
Artists, Painters Showcase
of Portland, and Buffalo
Grass Art Society. Her
work is also exhibited
yearly at the Art Affair
Lake Area Artists Annual
Show in Lake Oswego, and
at the Painters Showcase of
Portland Annual Art Show.
PHOTO BY HELEN SCHMIDLING
She has also shown
Sandy Dutko’s work hangs at Sisters her work at the Art on
Library this month.
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Sandy Dutko works in a variety of media — and sometimes combines
them.
Oregon Society of Artists
Gallery, the Lake Oswego
Festival of Arts Open Show
and Special Exhibits, the
Celebration of Creativity
Show, Local 14 Art Show,
Portland Open Studios Tour,
Washington County Tour, and
the Sisters Artist Studio Tour.
Her painting <New
Territory= has been featured
in the North Light published
book <Incite 2 Color Passions:
The Best of Mixed Media.=
Her work can now also be
seen at the Hood Avenue Art
Gallery in Sisters.
Also on display this
month in the library9s com-
puter room are the colorful
cut-paper art pieces of Carly
Garzon Vargas and digital
inkjet metallic imprints by
Katie Newton.