What a busy day this was. We needed to load out Sean Sobczak’s exhibit of Light Sculptures from the gallery, so I picked up the truck at nine then returned to the gallery to meet Sean at lunchtime. We packed everything up and took his work back to his loft at the Brewery, then returned [...]
Having done as much as I could to Amelia’s orb I moved back to Justice, who has been neglected of late, to build the surface of her face up a little. This is a wild improvement upon the sketched up noodling that I had earlier, so I’m pretty pleased with the progress I made this [...]
Tagged Tarot-related paintingsI think I have this figured out now. A while ago I made a circular piece with a second circle inside it, that I used as a base for the grails to sit on in the last show. It looks very good, with a soft transition from the central white circle to the darker burnt [...]
The orb is growing.It looks really bright and white at the moment, but it’s about to get it’s blue layer which will drop it right back again. I’m going to try a golden center around the flame, then blue over the large circle. Once that’s dry I’ll put in another layer of zinc white over [...]
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 paintingsI 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 [...]
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 [...]
The sword is coming along, based on a fabulous samurai sword loaned to me by our lovely costume designer, Lolita Ball, who is simply delightful. The alchemical Queen Amelia looks dramatic and intentional now, having acted to behead the king, now she has to transform herself in order to join the alchemical king in the [...]
Tagged air, Alchemical work, Amelia Earhart, fireI have been thinking ahead wondering what comes next in the painting. If Amelia is the elemental representative of the purified air, coming to the earth to be combined with it in the alchemical conjunction, then she will need to bring heat for the elements to be combined. In renaissance alchemical symbolism fire is often [...]
Tagged air, fire, swordHere’s the base layer of the shadows on Justice’s robe. I love the play between the blue and the white, very pleasant, but I’m going to have to warm up the shadows on the left side so the figure gets some depth to it. I’ll lay down another layer of white to soften the work [...]
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