Apparently losing your speech doesn’t improve your painting. I’m down to whispering for short periods of time, then running out of words completely, and painting rubbish. I worked at the sky for a couple of hours today, totally failing to do anything meaningful, and necessitating a repainting of one of the clouds. Meh. I couldn’t [...]
I have totally lost my voice! It’s alarming to try to speak to visitors only to hear a croaking noise come out, although there’s something strangely pleasant about not being able to talk that I can’t quite put my finger on. All my conversation is at the level of a whisper, making the most mundane [...]
John Blondell and I have known each other for nearly ten years. He’s the director of the experimental (and very fun) Lit Moon Theatre Company, which I’ve been involved with as a designer. I think he’s one of the most creative people I ever had the pleasure of working with, so it was a big [...]
I built the Traveler’s sky this morning with Flake white and a little Ivory black, then letting that set up for a while during grocery shopping time, then scraping on some of that nice bright Ceramic White over the top of the grey and using a large brush to soften the knife marks and turn [...]
Here’s what she looked like before today’s work. Much better now. See how the forest drops back in the picture below this one, allowing the figure to become the focus of the painting?
I had a busy, busy day today. I picked up Amelia from the High Studio a few days ago, where she had been waiting for me for a month or so and finally got to do some work to her. Looking at her in person reminded me how much I wanted to drop back the [...]
I’ve added the first layer of the left hand, and repainted the whites in the left arm. He’s again looking more like the rock star death that he was earlier in the process, and will get increasingly strong when his other hand is also in place. It’s tough to get a decent picture of the [...]
Goodness, I feel awful. My head is full of cotton wool. I’ve glazed both of the wings with the oxide now, so neither are as overly blue as they were, and I re-rendered the skull and began working on correcting the bones again. Now that the sky and wings are well established I’m revisiting the [...]
I picked up the six tubes of Iron Oxide that I asked Steve to order for me and finished sealing the Traveling man canvas, which is now completely covered (to varying degrees of thickness) by that lovely glow of rusty orange. I chose to use this as the first layer of the painting to give [...]
I added a couple of subtle layers to the painting yesterday afternoon that don’t photograph well at all, but were very worthwhile; first some detail and definition in the internal structures of the wings – painted in dense Prussian blue (using this lovely blue at its darkest end, where it’s almost black) this additional layer [...]
