Category Archives: Life

Time warp!

At Web.archive.org you can find a lot of stuff that was once on the web that would be gone forever if these guys hadn’t preserved it, including my old site! Quite a trip down memory lane. I grabbed some quotes … Continue reading

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Temperance iv

I shopped with my kids for large overcoats for the painting, spending several cheery hours wandering down Melrose in Hollywood and Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley. Lots of stores to lease in Hollywood, while the Ventura strip seems … Continue reading

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Temperance ii

Planning for this painting has set me thinking more about the nature of temperance in the new millennium. The cardinal virtues are so out of date after a century of modernism that I suppose many of us aren’t that familiar … Continue reading

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Pics from Art Miller

Art shot some pictures of the exhibit this morning for a slideshow he’s working on. 

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08.08.08

I just realized that after moving from the previous site I began posting the blog here on the Gilded Raven on August 8th, 2008: 08 08 08.

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The Big Picture

Art and Doug took some great pictures when they came to visit. Here’s a shot of the entire studio as it is right now. It definitely gives you the big picture. Art and I are talking in the top right, … Continue reading

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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

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Blah!

I had a terrible time painting today! Nothing went right and I ended up wiping away what I had done. (Thank goodness oil paint is so forgiving.) I stretched a new 48″ by 72″ canvas ready for new work. I’ll … Continue reading

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Sky

Fabulous sky tonight. Maybe I’ll use this for one of the paintings one day.   Photo by Elizabeth 

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Bombers vii

Working on the figure in Bombers is reflective of the fairly solitary life of a painter. I spend large amounts of time alone in the studio painting, sometimes seeing almost nobody. Yesterday I spoke to eight people all day including … Continue reading

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