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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Time to start again
Ok. So things have been a bit sketchy for a week or so. It’s time to get back into the studio and start working, as impossible as that seems. I am really grateful to my friends for gathering around me … Continue reading
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My children
It’s easy to be distracted by the hurly burly of life in the river, dealing with currents and underwater rocks, the uncertainty of where the river’s taking you and all the unpleasant difficulties of change. I’ve left my home, and … Continue reading
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The Golden Bowl xvi
I laid in a layer of Ultramarine Blue over the entire painting, using a large, soft sable brush to blend the background area to a smooth finish, then using a many-times-laundered cotton rag to remove most of the paint from … Continue reading
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Om…
Sometimes it’s not possible to focus on making work. Today was just one of those days, with a lot of bad personal voodoo going on, but I still feel as though it was productive and successful to some degree. My … Continue reading
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Soft edges
I decided to make a brief post about painting the background of the Golden Bowl. It took quite a while, because there were a lot of fiddly bits that needed attention to soften the edges into each other. If you … Continue reading
The Golden Bowl xv
In between preparing the canvases for the virtues I managed to get a layer of black onto the lower part of the painting, making a far darker composition which I like very much. The sky will get a layer of … Continue reading
Preparation
I’ve stretched canvas to three panels for the virtues, slapped on three coats of gesso to prime them (with the help of my son, who now thinks forest fires are terrific because he has no school today – is this … Continue reading
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After the fire
Ethan and I took the mighty hound up into the mountains behind the house to see what the fire had done to our landscape, with Ethan particularly concerned to visit the golden fish that bizarrely live in a concrete cattle … Continue reading
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Fire
The big brush fire missed us, and is completely out around here, but continues to be blown South toward Malibu. We were lucky. We were evacuated this morning while helicopters buzzed overhead dumping their loads of water over the flames. … Continue reading
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Making panels
Ryan helped me to replace the paintings in the gallery this morning, then return the truck. As we left I noticed a pair of students looking at the walls with very puzzled expressions, no doubt because the pictures had changed … Continue reading
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