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A look into the Career of Rick Broome
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Monday, April 21, 2008 01:33:20 PM
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The
Star*Lite Story… 47
YEARS OF ART HISTORY
Wondering what the Starlites look
like? Now, with recent digital technology, you can see how the
Faced
with the simple challenge of writing a description of how to achieve the correct
lighting of an original "STARLITE' painting
I decided the best approach was to treat the job like an art assignment. I spent
many months on the project and the effort grew larger with each revision. I
asked some of my friends who own my paintings what they thought and received
some surprising answers. Everyone agreed that I had not told them much at all
about how to display the art once they had it in their home. Further discussions
with even more of my collectors revealed some discouraging information. A number
of collectors who had purchased paintings from me had never displayed their
paintings under ultraviolet lighting once they hung them in their homes. I
had left the subject of home lighting unanswered. The knowledge I had learned
about how to create the paintings was a closely guarded secret; the simple
matter of correct home lighting an illusive unknown.
Most people generally agreed it was a story that should be told.
I found one collector who had invested in three exciting paintings.
He had never framed them or put them on display because he did not know
how to show them off correctly. As my research continued with dozens of my
personal collectors, a surprising number indicated they would also be interested
in learning about how I developed my unique style of painting. In
1992, I received a personal telephone call from General H. T. Johnson. He was Commander of Military Airlift Command at the time.
General Johnson was like a God to me.
He was the first Air Force Academy graduate who had attained the rank of
four-star general. (Mind you, Since I was about ten years old, I have always
thought of the USAF Academy class of 1959 like Gods!)
General Johnson owned a beautiful original painting I had created of his
C-130A. My painting captured the
Herc on departure from a famous mission he had flown into India in 1961.
As we talked on the phone he told me he had kept an 18 inch fluorescent
blacklight in his desk and it was a little cumbersome to haul the light out and
show off his painting in the dark. From
that telephone call I decided it was time to invent a frame that contained the
blacklights hidden within the shadowbox appearing picture frame.
The
evolution of my artistic techniques became a long story.
I decided to combine stories of My
desire to create paintings that show tremendous color and depth is a development
of my childhood impressions of the World around me. I easily recall my
fascination with color and lighting. My
earliest memories of the attraction I had to brilliance are my childhood
memories of color and light climaxed in memories of Christmas time and the
holiday seasons. My childhood
memories of the family Christmas tree are recalled with great excitement even to
this day! The
fascination and wonder of it all could have killed me, however. When I was seven
years old, I took a strand of Christmas tree lights to bed with me. I wanted to look at them under the covers of my bed.
After my Mom tucked me in and I said my prayers, I plugged the light set
in and hid under the covers so I would not be caught by my parents. I soon fell
asleep dreaming of the joyous season. Moments
later my bed caught on fire! Fortunately my mother smelled the smoke from my
smoldering bed and rescued me moments later. I suffered slight smoke inhalation
in the fire, but the blisters on my butt were from the spanking I received… CHAPTER
2 ART LESSONS & PHOTOS FROM
CHILDHOOD
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