Mr. Duane Keiser This is Me

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1. 1. Paint Squared in the News

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   Published on: 12/1/2007   Last Visited: 7/9/2008

   By most accounts, the roots of the painting-a-day movement reach back only as far as December 2004, when a painter named Duane Keiser, who also is an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, decided to test his discipline by challenging himself to post a new creation every day on his site at duanekeiser.blogspot.com.
   
   "I wanted to make a ritual for myself, to complete a painting in one day, every day, without any excuses," Mr. Keiser said in a phone interview last week."I liked the diary aspect of it, that it was like putting a time stamp on a painting.When it goes up on the blog, I know it happened on this day."
   
   Mr. Keiser's experiment soon attracted the attention of boingboing.net, a popular blog that identifies online trends.
   
   "After somebody wrote a little blurb about me for Boingboing, the whole thing just spread like, well, it was unbelievable," Mr. Keiser said."I would wake up in the morning and paint, say, an egg, and post it, and then some guy in India would e-mail me and it was breathtaking to realize that within a few minutes of my finishing a painting, people everywhere in the world were looking at it."
   
   Previously, Mr. Keiser sold most of his work through traditional brick-and-mortar galleries."But this has allowed me the flexibility to not worry about whether a gallery will accept me," he said.
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   There was a time when Mr. Keiser's daily artworks sold for as little as $100 on his site.But since Domino magazine anointed him "the godfather of these blogs" in an article published in July, things have changed.
   
   These days, he auctions his painting-a-day work at eBay, where last week a 5-inch-by-5-inch painting of a plate decorated with a crab got 12 bids before selling for $265.

2. 2. TimesDispatch.com | Artist Keiser finds his muse in the mundane

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   Published on: 1/8/2006   Last Visited: 1/8/2006

   Artist Keiser finds his muse in the mundane
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   WHAT: Duane Keiser's "Night Paintings" exhibition
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   Duane Keiser has a powdered doughnut.
   
   It's average, everyday things that catch the Richmond painter's attention.A bird on an electrical wire.Heads of garlic.An empty street corner.
   
   Keiser, an adjunct art professor at the University of Richmond and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland where he also studied as an undergraduate, has spent a career finding inspiration in the seemingly mundane and uninteresting, from the inside of a darkened closet to a gooey peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
   
   And every day for about the past year, Keiser has turned that inspiration into a painting, usually about the size of a postcard, that's posted daily on his Web log and sold for $100 a pop.It started as a way to do something with his small works that wouldn't be suitable to sell in a gallery, and make oil paintings more accessible to those who can't drop thousands of dollars on his larger paintings.
   
   The blog works began selling so quickly each day that Keiser has moved to an online auction format to allow people more time to vie for his pieces.
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   Like a photographer who leaves a shutter open to expose film to more light, Keiser said it can take months of studying a scene to get the right effect, whether it's street lamps glowing in the darkness or a parked car's red brake lights reflecting oncoming headlights.
   
   "I find these things to be fascinating for some reason," Keiser said.

3. 3. Welcome to the Mechanicsville Local

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   Published on: 12/7/2005   Last Visited: 7/9/2006

   Randolph-Macon College alumnus Duane Keiser will exhibit a retrospective exhibition of his night paintings at the Flippo Gallery, located at 211 North Center Street in Pace-Armistead Hall on Randolph-Macon's campus.
   
   The exhibit opens Dec. 11 and runs through Feb. 12, 2006.Keiser exhibits locally and nationally while teaching at both Randolph-Macon and the University of Richmond.