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Category Archives: Angel
Blues
Here we go, Introducing Prussian blue to the wing has made already made a huge difference to the feel of the skeleton, making the white of the bones pop out from the wing most effectively. I love the way blues … Continue reading
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Iron Oxide
I got lots of work done pretty quickly during the afternoon yesterday. The sky is shaping up well with a new layer of transparent Iron Oxide helping it to look quite dramatic, but it’s still lacking a few more layers … Continue reading
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Fool and the Black Sky
Remember those large pallette knives I bought at Continental last week? I’ve been using the long thin one to scrape on lead white for juicy cloud highlights. First I’ll put the paint onto the canvas using a small sized knife, … Continue reading
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Shoot
Taking pictures of Cody for reference for the Traveler went well, so I’m pretty confident that I’ll be able to get moving with the painting once I grid out the canvas and draw the man in the setting. As usual … Continue reading
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Sky
While waiting for my student to arrive to be photographed I painted a greyscale sky behind death. I let it get pretty dark so that there is an ominous sense to it, with cracks of light appearing in the sky … Continue reading
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Fool
I’m posting a couple of pictures of the Fool from the Marseille and the Waite Rider decks so that I have a clear note of source material for the Traveling Man painting. I’ve always been fond of the Fool, who … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving
I’m thankful for: My three kids, my home here in California, my family in England. My friends. Painting. Having such an extraordinary job. Yoga. Today I’m thankful that I’ve almost finished the skulls. I worked this morning and for a … Continue reading
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Traveler sketched, skulls moving
I’ve loosely sketched the traveler onto the panel to see how he looks in a very rough form at the actual size. It was enjoyable drawing at this scale, although I had to alter several things to become satisfied with … Continue reading
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Fool’s journey
I’ve sketched a new version of the Traveling Man painting, based on a path that is receding from the picture plane over a hilltop, so that the landscape is low in the composition, and allowing a valley view that needn’t … Continue reading
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Meditation
Another one down. This skull work is becoming a meditation on death. But curiously I haven’t really had a morbid thought since I began the piece. I think of this angel of death in terms of renewal – like spring … Continue reading
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