{"id":1552,"date":"2025-02-24T02:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T02:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/?page_id=1552"},"modified":"2025-02-24T02:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T02:18:17","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/?page_id=1552","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Dreger – Bio <\/h2>\n

I have lived and painted in Oregon for over 25 years. I have taught painting, drawing and color theory in Oregon, along with digital art and design classes at 4 local colleges.<\/p>\n

I am inspired by color and light in live settings, such as those experienced in Oregon and Washington\u2019s fantastic vistas. Most of my recent landscape paintings have been one-session \u201cplein air\u201d paintings, meaning they were painted on site at one time, taking usually about 2 \u2013 4 hours each.<\/p>\n

I like to paint from life because of the endless information in nature from which to pick colors, shapes, and forms.<\/p>\n

I also paint still life setups with lights, transparent and translucent objects and liquids, and well-worn\/well-loved objects like old boots.<\/p>\n

I have always painted portraits, preferably from life in one sitting. The human face, the center of consciousness, is endlessly fascinating.<\/p>\n

I structure my paintings on the relationship between 2D and 3D movements in a composition, and the resonance between geometry, color, space and meaning.<\/p>\n

I paint in oil, acrylic, encaustic, and several drawing mediums.<\/p>\n

I price my paintings on materials and time, and I believe in creating fine art that is affordable by most people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Dreger – Bio  I have lived and painted in Oregon for over 25 years. I have taught painting, drawing and color theory in Oregon, along with digital art and design classes at 4 local colleges. I am inspired by color and light in live settings, such as those experienced in Oregon and Washington\u2019s fantastic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1554,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1552","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}