Here’s a first draft for Justice. It’s far more stylized than the drawing for angelic temperance, but I’ll develop that drawing later. I’m enjoying this formal approach for a change. I think this is the natural progression from the very simple Numbers by Painting pieces I began and abandoned earlier this year. The number symbolism [...]
Tagged Tarot-related paintingsTwo, Four, Five, One. I found a little time in the studio to work on the Numbers by Painting series. I laid on a layer of Payne’s grey to darken the outside areas of three of the pieces. On One I dry-brushed the Payne’s grey onto the raised edges of the circle, dropping the [...]
Here are the photos that I should have posted yesterday. All in process, nothing completed. Two, Five and One in their present condition. Here’s a closer shot of Two. You can see the stippled surface where the rag breaks up the surface of the paint. Here’s a shot showing the surface of Five. The semi-transparent [...]
I laid on a coat of Ultramarine blue over the brown surface of the number five piece, and used some zinc white mixed with a little payne’s grey to make a semi-transparent blue-grey to glaze over the number two. I pulled the glaze using a clean rag so it has a translucent patchiness over the white under painting. Newspaper [...]
I’ve done quite a lot of sketches now for the numbers series. The canvases were all ready to go by Friday morning, so I started laying out some of the drawings. By evening I painted on the first layer of burned sienna onto the canvas on numbers four and five. I really like the [...]
Moving ahead with the boxes, I poured good quality gesso onto the previously primed panel and used a 1/4″ quarter round piece of molding to spread it around the surface. This gives me a nice thick textured surface to work on. I began shaping the gesso into a circle for the first piece, which [...]
I’m beginning a series of paintings of numbers using Pythagorean and Renaissance alchemical ideas about how numbers represent divine order. I have seven boxes that I have stretched canvas onto, now I’ll lay on plenty of Gesso to prepare them. Some of the pieces are going to be quite three dimensional, so I want to [...]
