Category Archives: Numbers by painting

Justice

Here’s a first draft for Justice. It’s far more stylized than the drawing for angelic temperance, but I’ll develop that drawing later. I’m enjoying this formal approach for a change. I think this is the natural progression from the very … Continue reading

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Numbers by Painting VI

    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

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Numbers by Painting V

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

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Numbers by Painting IV

I laid on a coat of Ultramarine blue over the brown surface of the number five piece, and used some zinc white mixed with a little payne’s grey to make a semi-transparent blue-grey to glaze over the number two. I pulled the glaze using … Continue reading

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Numbers by painting III

  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

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Numbers by painting II

  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

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Numbers by painting

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

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