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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Blah!
I felt really awful yesterday, so I wasn’t able to get much done, although I did manage to sketch in some feathery detail onto Temperance’s wings, which are looking more angelic now. I hope to shoot pictures for Fortitude pretty … Continue reading
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Rock salt
I added a layer of zinc white to the rocks. Zinc is a very transparent white, so it’s great for jobs like this, where I want to keep the colour and texture beneath it coming through. With the remaining paint … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, oils, painting
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Reworked jacket, sky and stone
Amelia is developing well. My ideas are changing all the time at the moment, and I’m really enjoying the developments. Having painted the sky in, I got into the next unifying layer of raw sienna over the landscape, and added … Continue reading
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Tagged air, Alchemical work, Amelia Earhart, earth, elements
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High Studio exhibit opens
I have several paintings in a show titled “Dreamscapes” at the High Studio in Moorpark. We installed the “As the Crow Flies” piece, dominating one wall of the gallery. It’s a solidly alchemical piece, illustrating the nigredo, the process of … Continue reading
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Amelia’s sky, sailing
I painted a glaze of Prussian Blue over the sky, taking it to a nice rich dark blue that I’m enjoying so much that the Prussian might supplant the Ultramarine blue in my choice of favorite blues. I love that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, Amelia Earhart, elements, oils, painting, water
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Amelia in the desert
I added a sky, because I just couldn’t stand leaving the background in darkness, wanting to find the desert scene I enjoyed in Bombers. So right now I’ve added some of the salty stones in the foreground and I’ve painted … Continue reading
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Amelia’s Jacket
               With the white paint dry enough to work on at last I was able to bring some colour into the figure. I really enjoyed using a combination of … Continue reading
Glaze
I added a glaze of Ultramarine Blue and Ivory Black to the background of Amelia, who is still not quite ready for another layer – that thick white paint can take a really long time to dry, especially when it’s … Continue reading
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Amelia in the dark, Temperance gets wings
I built up some of the shadows for Amelia’s background. I like the way this looks so far, and we’ll see where it goes from here. The light is beginning to feel real and she’s coming off the canvas quite … Continue reading
Amelia in the cavern
Because it’s been intemperately pouring with rain here in Southern California, lovely Amelia’s too wet to paint today unless I work around the figure and deal with the background. When the air is full of moisture paint takes much longer … Continue reading
