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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Glendale exhibit
Glendale is over. We pulled all the paintings and much of the sculpture out of the gallery yesterday, filling the early evening with the back and forth of canvases and crates, and driving our little trucks through the mayhem of … Continue reading
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The duality of angels
Here’s the beginning – the duality of the pairing of the angels of life and death. How much more complete can opposition be than two squares, one completely black, one completely white? I understand that there can’t be any true … Continue reading
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Gesso
We’ve had a very productive morning. Jason came over to help me with the big panels, and laid down a couple of coats of gesso onto the panel I stretched yesterday. I carried on with canvas and finished getting it … Continue reading
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One down
Here’s the first panel with raw canvas freshly stretched over it. To successfully cover a large panel I’ve found that the way to go is to stretch the cloth as one would with a smaller piece over stretcher bars, placing … Continue reading
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Epic begins
Now I’m in trouble. The canvas arrived this morning, so I’ve cleared some space to lay it on the ground and begin stretching it onto the big panels. The angel of death is all set up, requiring only a little … Continue reading
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Grin and bear it
By painting a glaze of very light grey over the sky and taking most of it off with a rag I’ve brought solidity to the bottom of the clouds, then put on some pure titanium white on the top edges, … Continue reading
Bear necessity
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying myself in the studio, helping Rich cut panels in the new woodshop, setting up the skeleton for the Angel of Death painting and making the landscape for the Fortitude piece. First the woodshop, which is completely … Continue reading
Angel of Death
Having shown several friends the sketch of the angels of life and death that I did for the big panels I have changed my mind about these two characters. The reaction was so strongly in favour of making them that … Continue reading
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Tarot celebration
Now Fortitude’s sky has clouds and my model has legs and the bruin is becoming more defined. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s work, when I hope to get another layer of sky down, and to develop some mountains in the … Continue reading
Devils and angels
After my morning class I got started preparing the angels and devils sketches, moving toward decisions on what these big pieces are going to be. I’m particularly enjoying the scorpion-like people in the desert, and the hermit with the three … Continue reading
