I thought it might be interesting to have the texts and some images from the exhibit posted here for people who couldn’t make it to the show. The Alchemical Theatre (20″ x 16″) Pieces of a demolished theatre, poplar, gold Saddened by the demolition of the old Little Theatre I took pieces of [...]
Tagged installation, paintingOgre was still wet, so I couldn’t do more to the crucifixion, so instead I worked on finishing up Amelia’s face and spent a long time defining the shadows of the ivy and getting detail work into the jewelry and helmet. I may have darkened things a touch too much, so I’ll probably get back [...]
I worked to finish Amelia’s face, adding moving the eye and putting some flesh tones over the grey layer, then adding some highlights right into the wet paint. It’s almost there now. I’m more satisfied with the positions of the features, so I’ll scrape some texture over it next. I darkened the side of her [...]
I put on a velatura of red iron oxide, white and naples yellow to begin fleshing out the face of poor Amelia. She’ll need a bit of tweaking to finish her up, but she’s pretty close. I’m not happy with the top of the nose, and need to move it to the left, which may [...]
I took poor Amelia’s face off with some fine grit sandpaper. The eye was in the wrong place, the nose was hopeless, so she’s temporarily faceless. Not to worry, I quickly rebuilt her structure, at least the en grisaille layer, getting ready for rehabilitation. This is a little rough, but will clean up nicely later. [...]
I picked up Fama from Rich’s home this morning, where it had been tucked away after a show last month when I was unable to pick it up myself. Once I got to the studio I put it on an easel next to the Aviator’s Dream and noticed a distinct lack of background in the [...]
I painted more ivy today, which brings the Aviator’s Dream dangerously close to completion. The crucifixion got a glaze coat over the blacks to make the quality of the finish more consistent, leaving only that face to deal with. So there are two major paintings nearly complete, meaning that I’d better get some more work [...]
The ivy is thoroughly laid in now, still pretty crude, but you can see the structure of it. After I shot these pictures I continued to paint the leaves upward on the side of Amelia’s body. I really like the way Amelia’s embedded in the ivy, it makes the image feel strongly dreamlike and emphasizes [...]
Surprise! I began painting the ivy in the Aviator’s Dream at last. I’ve been putting it off for so long now that it was getting silly and I really have no good reason for not wanting to do the foliage. I put down the first layer of greens over the dark background I had [...]
I shot reference pictures of ivy for the Aviator’s Dream painting, but the sun was far too high in the for them to be really useful other than as a resource for the shapes of the leaves and how the network of tendrils and shadows works. The light has to be at least similar. Next [...]
