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Category Archives: Alchemical work
Bombers xi
The dark spaces in between are most important in the early stages of a painting, the way I like to make them, anyway. I lay down the shapes of the dark shadows and work out from them, upward toward light. … Continue reading
Dream herbs
I’ve been interested in herbs for a long time, making my own tinctures and using them as medicine. Recently I started looking into herbs that encouraged dreaming, being particularly interested in dreams as source material for paintings. Here are a … Continue reading
Bombers x
Because of technical difficulties at the old site the blog will be here at https://gildedraven.com from now on. Please bookmark it. I worked on the hermit in Bombers, painting a velatura skin and emphasizing the shadows between the rocks in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, astronomy, mysticism, oils
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The Golden Bowl xi
I painted a beautiful face for the girl on the lower left of the painting today, then for some reason decided that it wasn’t quite right and wiped it away. This was an error because for the next twenty minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, painting, pentagram
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The Golden Bowl x
Working on smaller paintings is much more fiddly and cautious than the big ones. Here’s the result of this morning’s work to clean up the central figure in “The Golden Bowl”, which I’m beginning to enjoy immensely. There’s something slightly … Continue reading
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Bombers ix
Mountains en grisaille. Slow progress today, but it’s coming together. I want to make the range on the right light and that on the left dark, as it is at the Trona Pinnacles. It’s an additional layer of symbolic duality … Continue reading
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Bombers viii
I searched through my pictures for a long time this morning, looking for my landscape shots from the trip I made up there in December. Somehow I misplaced all of the horizontal images in the computer, and couldn’t find them … Continue reading
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Tagged 1.62, Alchemical work, david bowie, death valley, painting
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Bombers vi
I spent a few hours working the white stone and the megaliths. The sky will have to wait, as I became quite tired and took an early lunch, then returned to work on the crucifixion. Â
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Bombers v
After a slow start doing the en grisaille on the man things really flew along and I got the basic landscape laid down with the broken up lake bed isolated in grey. It looks pretty psychedelic right now in orange … Continue reading
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Bombers iii
Bill Solomon came by this morning and showed me some of his extraordinary sculptural work. We have a good deal in common as far as 3d work goes. He has invented an imaginary culture that used artefacts made with gold and bark, … Continue reading
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