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Show Kent Price's parenls circa HMD. Price paints with pencils by Nan Chalat After experimenting with just about every medium available, painter Kent Price discovered prisma color pencils and has been using them almost exclusively for the last four years. The results are on exhibit in the Kimball Art Center's Little Gallery through October. "They give me more detail than anything I have ever tried," said Price, who works on watercolor paper and then gives the finished subject a clear coat of polyurethane to bring out the gloss of the oil-based pencils. The compositions, mostly contemporary contem-porary subjects portrayed in a realistic style, do indeed resemble paintings more than drawings. People dominate the canvases: friends, the artist's children, and his parents. "I work from photographs, sometimes some-times taking two or three and making a composite of them." said Price. One portrait, for instance, was taken from three photographs: one of his parents shortly after they were married in 1939, one of a brownstone apartment building and one of a vintage continental. He presented them with the finished product last year at Christmas. Price's painting, "Three Doves," showing Judy Collins, Joanie Mitchell Mit-chell and Joan Baez, is also a composite of three photographs. "I'm a child of the sixties and I've always admired those women," he said. The show at the Kimball Art Center is Price's first exhibit. By his own admission he has never had any formal art training, although he has been painting and drawing since he was a child. He is currently a department store manager but is hoping to launch a full-time art career. |