I’m back from a week in the mountains camping in the forest with no internet access and no cellphones. Fantastic! I slept under the open sky each night, looking for satellites, spotting shooting stars and bathed in starlight. Scorpio was directly above, surrounded by high pine trees that created a powerful single point perspective centered [...]
It’s amazing how much preparation goes into making a painting. I have three projects on the go simultaneously: the crucifixion needs to be re-stretched and completed, the “Aviator’s Dream” is demanding ivy, and “As the Crow Flies” needs to get started. I laid out the bars for the crucifixion. They were leaned together in the closet where I [...]
I’ve returned to the studio and brought boxes of paint and some stretcher bars to re-stretch the crucifixion painting and to take stock of where the “Aviator’s Dream” stands. It seems to me that I need to get some ivy painted into the foreground in order to complete the composition, then I’m done. I [...]
The great black bird hunt continues. I haven’t seen any ravens at the University, so I hope to find some in the national forest lands near our home. I did manage to catch this guy in a tree, looking disdainfully down at me. He seemed to be quite content to sit up high in [...]
Tagged crow, painting, ravenThe great advantage of the studio tour day was that it tied me to the easel for the entire day. It was really nice to hang out with Larkin for the day too. I got plenty of work done to the painting, darkening the sky and ocean with a deep dark blue [...]
Tagged art, daedalus, icarus, oils, painting, raven, rosicrucianOur search for these birds is now bordering on the obsessive. When we look for them we can never find them, and when we spot them we never have a camera ready. My daughter is in on the search with me. Equally fanatical, she pursues each flitting shadow with a zoom lens. Once in a [...]
The flower field. First layer of flowers over two layers of preparatory painting.
Tagged Alchemical work, art, daedalus, icarus, oils, painting, raven, rosicrucianA productive day. We have a beautiful rose garden next to our chapel here at the CLU campus. so I shot some close up pictures yesterday as reference material for the rose in the box. In the studio this morning I worked on laying in some darker and lighter areas to give it some shape, tricky [...]
Tagged Alchemical work, art, daedalus, icarus, oils, painting, raven, rosicrucianThe second photo is by Ethan Pearce Continuing my pursuit of those melancholy birds as research for the “Aviator’s Dream” painting, this morning we walked the trusty hound to the park, seeking out ravens as we went. It seems that they enjoy the comfort of their beds on a Sunday morning as much as [...]
Tagged Alchemical work, art, daedalus, icarus, oils, painting, raven, rosicrucian
