I enjoyed getting the Raw Sienna into the hair, using some Prussian Blue to counter the yellowness of the pigment. I ragged some of that blue onto the wings while I was at it, and I beginning to see how these will work, with soft layers of whites, creams and blues to create a feathery [...]
Tagged Tarot-related paintingsRather late announcing this one – One of my paintings will be in a show at the Ventura County Government Center as of Wednesday. This is great, because thousands of people pass through the government center daily, and I know there will be some good exposure there.
I drove back to Thousand Oaks today, an eight hour journey that felt like fifteen. I arrived here at about nine pm, deciding like a lunatic to get into the studio and paint once I got to unload, which I will start on once I’ve posted this to the blog. Venus and Jupiter were bright [...]
Here in the forest I have no means of keeping the blog going unless I get into town and visit a cafe with wifi. While I sat here today, nursing a pot of good tea I met a young man, Brian, who is translating the Tao Te Ching. We started chatting about the Tao, about [...]
Painting Amelia as Temperance continued, adding Prussian blue to the shadows of her pants, extending and correcting the shape of the left leg, and defining the shadows of the face and goggles. I worked at the hair on the left side of the face, and will need to bring some whites back into that area [...]
I felt extraordinarily privileged to meet Lama Pema Tenzin, and Twewang Seetar Rinpoche when they came to visit friends here. They’re from Bhutan, o Druk Yul (the Land of the Dragon), the last Buddhist kingdom in the world. At age 13, Lama Pema Tenzin began to study traditional Tibetan and Bhutanese arts with his teacher [...]
I’ve been staying in the forest North of San Francisco with little to no internet connection to work with. I have been painting and have some very worthwhile experiences to share. The conditions for painting aren’t ideal, with little space to work with and the climate slowing drying times down radically, but the peace of [...]
I’ve been thinking and writing about the role of feminine characters in my paintings as I prepare a paper for the Alchemy Journal. Amelia is the most dominant of the women at present, having appeared in an earlier incarnation in Fama, the Aviator’s Dream and now Amelia beheads the King. To me she represents the [...]
I took stone from the canyon and ground it to powder. The sage is broken to small pieces and placed into my blender, reduced to fragments. Tomorrow I will macerate the two in a solvent and set up a reflux tower to pull the essence from them.
