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Monthly Archives: March 2009
The sun and the moon
                      Here’s the fruit of the work today, a night sky with the beginning of a sun and moon, and a couple of weird … Continue reading
Mr. blue sky
If you want to make a really brilliant blue, red or yellow field in a painting one of the best ways to do it is to paint the area you’re looking at white, then put a coat of transparent paint … Continue reading
             You’ll see that the handle of Justice’s sword has been wrapped in a twisted leather, binding it so that Justice can keep her grip on the sword … Continue reading
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Just ice
I’ve been very preoccupied with getting things ready for Megan and Murray, who are coming to the gallery tonight, starting work on their installation for the university. After making sure that they had a place to stay I continued working on … Continue reading
Angels
There are two layers of gesso on each of the four pieces I stretched yesterday, and I’ve been looking at these tall canvases considering how to use them, and I keep coming back to an image of white figures emerging … Continue reading
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Practical
Continuing with the practical mood, I stretched some left over ends of canvas that I’ve been saving for a while, simply stapling them onto the face of some good quality plywood with plastic sheeting covering the front of it. Once … Continue reading
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Woodshop 2
We’ve finished building the first work bench in the new wood-shop, so now we can produce panels and stretchers to our hearts content. Awesome! Sam and Jason did a fine job building them with me, and we had a good … Continue reading
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The Devil
I’ve been chatting with my friend Sean Sobczak (he makes those beautiful light sculptures) about posing for the Devil card, one of the most dramatic in the deck. Clearly intended as a warning against enslavement to vice of all kinds, the … Continue reading
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Woodshop
We’ve started making progress turning the little studio next to the large painting studio into a woodshop, clearing out paintings that were being stored there and moving carpentry equipment in. Tomorrow we’ll build work benches along one of the walls … Continue reading
Twins
Building up the skin tone with a second layer, the boys are beginning to take shape as people instead of blobby blue things. Pretty rough at present, looking forward to subsequent layers refining and fixing them. Half of the battle … Continue reading
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