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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Dream
I wasn’t really sure that this would be appropriate for the blog, but I suspect that this dream will show up as source material for a painting one day. I was at a funeral in a hall. The body of … Continue reading
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Summer Solstice
Today’s the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, when the sun at sunrise reaches the most northern point of its journey across the horizon. Depending on where you are on the earth, at midsummer the sun rises roughly North … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Neolithic britain
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As the crow flies VII
Today’s progress was minimal, but effective. I worked on adding colour to the second en grisaille layer, which I never did take a picture of. The first layer of colour has gone down pretty well, as usual I see an … Continue reading
As the crow flies VI
Sandy sent this piece of Ted Hughes’ work as a comment. I thought it was fabulous, so here it is as a post too. Thanks for sending it Sandy.  Ted Hughes – From the Life and Songs of the Crow  … Continue reading
Posted in As the crow flies, Black birds, Making work
Tagged Alchemical work, crow, oils, painting
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Geomantic man
The work today began with the crow piece, to which I added the second more refined layer of grey work to get the figure closer to the finished rendering before the colour work goes down. I’m pretty content with him … Continue reading
As the crow flies V
I worked at the en grisaille layer of the figure today, first sanding down the area that needs to be painted, then laying in a rather rough version of the values. The more I paint the more I appreciate the … Continue reading
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As the crow flies IV
I spent the morning taking care of administration then got to work after lunch. The studio looks great right now after a big clean up courtesy of our student worker Marianne, who is doing a great job of getting things … Continue reading
Posted in Alchemical work, As the crow flies, Black birds, Making work
Tagged Alchemical work, art, ashlar, crow, freemason, lesser work, oils, painting, raven, rosicrucian
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As the crow flies III
It’s almost half past midnight, and I’ve been working on the computer to isolate and construct a nice range of crow and raven photos. I shot a couple of hundred pictures of them in the course of last month. I … Continue reading
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As the crow flies II
I have procrastinated long enough over this, and although I managed to spend a morning putting paintings away, tidying my office and taking care of some administrative stuff, then sharing a good lunch with my colleague Terry Spehar Fahey, who’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Alchemical work, Black birds, Making work
Tagged Alchemical work, art, crow, lesser work, oils, painting, raven, rosicrucian
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Junkie Pieta
 Here’s an old friend that I haven’t shown for a while, the Junkie Peita. I borrowed my trusty painter friend Rich Brimer‘s truck today to bring the rest of the stored paint to the studio and realized that I could … Continue reading
Posted in Hospital paintings, Installation work
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