Category Archives: Folklore

Getting Warmer

Posted on June 23, 2011 by pearce

A pleasant afternoon visiting the Getty with Mike Adams and a group of my students didn’t leave a great deal of time in the studio, but after dropping off the students and taking a short break for a glass of good … Continue reading →

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Joe – a Second Layer

Posted on June 22, 2011 by pearce

After having completed the wet white layer and allowing it to dry thoroughly I re-rendered the features of the face in a Raw Umber, this time without using any white at all. In this layer I’m only interested in capturing … Continue reading →

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Doing it Rossetti’s way

Posted on June 21, 2011 by pearce

Based on what I saw in Birmingham (see this earlier post) I’m using a variation on Rossetti’s version of the famous Pre-Raphaelite wet white technique to create a study of Joe’s head as the first of a group of paintings … Continue reading →

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Lavender

Posted on June 16, 2011 by pearce

For the last couple of days I’ve spent the afternoons working on the vegetation around the figure of the Star, building up patches of Raw Umber, then using a rag to dash stripes into it, lifting away the paint to … Continue reading →

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Labyrinths page

Posted on May 19, 2009 by pearce

I updated the labyrinths page with a lot of photos of the fire path we did a few weeks ago. So many beautiful images, shot by one of our students.

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Candlelit path

Posted on April 21, 2009 by pearce

This was beautiful. A group of students helped to light the candles and place them into bags, then we silently walked the pathway with candles in hand adding them to the pathway on our journey to the centre. The Fire … Continue reading →

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Heart and soul

Posted on April 21, 2009 by pearce

In Valentin Tomberg’s great Meditations on the Tarot he describes the relationship of the alchemical twins as a matter of the interaction of heart and mind becoming one in intuition. I like this idea, although it’s a little distant from … Continue reading →

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Scythe

Posted on April 19, 2009 by pearce

I’ve managed to paint the scythe in a light raw sienna, and to clean up the blade in a solid grey that will take a touch of blue to fix the edges and add a metallic quality to it. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Bones, alchemy and a narrow rocky pathway

Posted on April 15, 2009 by pearce

   I continued with the skeleton for a short time, bringing it still closer to completion, but unable to find the last couple of hours that I need to get that foot done. The heads will take a couple of … Continue reading →

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Labyrinth installation III

Posted on May 2, 2008 by pearce

It was time to put the labyrinth to bed, so we gathered at the creek and walked into the labyrinth. At the centre each of my students chose a rock and carried it out with them through the winding path, … Continue reading →

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