Article: The artist outlines, the viewer fills in

Andrew Millner uses a stylus on an electronic graphics tablet to draw trees and gardens. Using hundreds of digital photos taken from different angles as a reference, he incorporates details that would be difficult to see from one perspective.

Most of the pieces in his show at Miller Block Gallery feature white lines over lush color backgrounds, made into glossy light jet prints. Millner is wise to work only in outlines; texture or shadow would complicate things. The outlines of several layers of leaves become their own kind of texture, conveying the rustle and life of a tree's canopy.

In "Wavehill Dogwood" the leaves are droopy, tipped ovals, but each is different from the next. Where they ...

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