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Category Archives: Angel
Warm and cool
Adding Raw Sienna as a warm colour on the left sides of the skulls and a Cobalt blue on the right side in the deep shadows has unified the rendering of the skulls and made things seem more three dimensional. … Continue reading
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White
Happy Birthday America! My exile from the studio while the wall was built is over. Although the floor is filthy, theres no door, and the lights aren’t working quite properly, it’s functional enough to get back to painting, so I’ve … Continue reading
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Doodling
I’ve made the first thumbnail sketches for the next couple of paintings. On the left the doodles for the epic thirty footer, on the right I’m feeling out the shapes for the Empress (Angel of Birth). The drawings in my … Continue reading
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A wall
Wow! After a day of clearing the studio out, yesterday the contractor got busy and threw up the framing for the wall in a day, even sheet-rocking one side all the way to the roof. Today they returned and added … Continue reading
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Stepping out
I’ve finished the brown layer of the skulls, which means that everything should start moving a bit faster now. I’m very pleased to see how much the painting has opened out, with the skulls streaming out off the sides of … Continue reading
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Complete skulls first layer tomorrow
With that patch of unworked white steadily diminishing, I’m getting so close to finishing the first layer of the skulls that it’s almost painful. In answer to Gary’s comment on the previous post (thanks for that), this has been an … Continue reading
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Wrapping up the skulls
I’m on the home stretch of the skulls now, with only the top of the left side to do, and they’re going pretty smoothly. I got into the studio early today so I could watch the world cup game between … Continue reading
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Epic
Adding skulls to the left side has really made a big difference to the feel of the painting. Now I’m getting a very strong sense of scale, with the skulls reaching from side to side around the angel, falling away … Continue reading
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On the right side of the angel
The skulls on the right side are complete (in the first layer) so tomorrow morning I’m planning to move over to the left side and see how far I can get, then I plan to watch the world cup game between England … Continue reading
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More
I’m working on the skulls high on the right side, gradually bringing them down to meet the foreground. Getting the balance of the contrast is going to become increasingly important, and I’m concerned to get the scale of the skulls … Continue reading
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