Category Archives: Numbers by painting

    Two, Four, Five, One. I found a little time in the studio to work on the Numbers by Painting series. I laid on a layer of Payne’s grey  to darken the outside areas of three of the pieces. On … Continue reading →

Here are the photos that I should have posted yesterday. All in process, nothing completed. Two, Five and One in their present condition.  Here’s a closer shot of Two. You can see the stippled surface where the rag breaks up … Continue reading →

  I’ve done quite a lot of sketches now for the numbers series. The canvases were all ready to go by Friday morning, so I started laying out some of the drawings. By evening I painted on the first layer … Continue reading →

  Moving ahead with the boxes, I poured good quality gesso onto the previously primed panel and used a 1/4″ quarter round piece of molding to spread it around the surface. This gives me a nice thick textured surface to … Continue reading →

I’m beginning a series of paintings of numbers using Pythagorean and Renaissance alchemical ideas about how numbers represent divine order. I have seven boxes that I have stretched canvas onto, now I’ll lay on plenty of Gesso to prepare them. … Continue reading →