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Category Archives: Alchemical work
At the feet of the reaper
One more foot to go and the bone man is complete. I’m really feeling tired now, after several days of focus on this painting, and making panels as entertainment in between painting sessions. I’ll post a picture tomorrow after the … Continue reading
Handy
Three hands, two heads. Finally back on a roll, I got the body and arm of the left hand boy more fully realized, fixed the outline of the right hand and repainted the background, which had become quite dirty from … Continue reading
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Clearing the Sun
I thought I would add a little to the previous post by commenting that the hair on the boy on the left is grey now so that it can become blonde later – in the next layer I’ll put some … Continue reading
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Ganymede
I feel a little foolish posting the second picture, because it represents so little actual painting work, but quite a lot of investigation into the background of Temperance in the renaissance symbolism that lies behind the tarot cards of the … Continue reading
Death
  Here’s the complete first layer of the bone man. I did a bit of research on scythes, being uncertain of the appearance of those  found in the old cards because I remember using one when I was a kid mowing … Continue reading
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Bones
I haven’t painted a complete skeleton for a very long time – I think since I was a student at Swindon College of Art and Design in 1983, which seems a ridiculously long time ago – so working on the … Continue reading
Mineral alchemy
I got back to the lab today, after quite a long break, spending a very pleasant hour with my friend John Tannacci, who  helped me to begin heating the ground up sandstone from the Red Rock Canyon in an electric … Continue reading
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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
