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Category Archives: Making work
Elements in the Magician’s Landscape
I’ve drawn the landscape for the Magician’s world onto the canvas, with distant mountain range, a trough of water, a cross of long rags attached to sticks, and rocks and clouds that resemble each other. All four elements are represented in … Continue reading
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Magician with Blues
I painted the Empress’ morning glory flowers blue this morning, but otherwise didn’t get much work done, spending a lot of time thinking about how the painting goes forward from this point and fiddling with cleaning brushes and tidying the … Continue reading
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Green glaze
Working pretty fast, I’ve added a glaze of Sap Green over the greyscale leaves of ivy and morning glory. Easy work, but a huge difference! I’ll add some Iron Oxide red to the leaves tomorrow when this is dry. Rich … Continue reading
Wormwood and Cast Shadows
Drop shadows make a huge difference to the way an object sits within a painting. Now that there’s a glaze of Raw Umber around the morning glory and some highlighting of some smaller leaves the plant seems more substantial. Although … Continue reading
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Morning Glory Foundation
Morning Glory is perfect for this painting, with its heart shaped leaves, wonderfully colourful flowers and reputation as a plant that opens doorways to other worlds. It’s a fragile flower that lasts for a short time, but one that blooms … Continue reading
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Ivy Creeps
Despite the day being turned upside down yesterday by a cancelled plane flight to England, resulting in many phone calls and waiting for hours to get through to Virgin Atlantic (no luck) I made it into the studio to paint … Continue reading
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Magician
I really don’t want to leave this eight feet square blank canvas sitting with nothing on it, so I decided to grid it out and place the Magician’s figure onto the new surface. She lines up beautifully with the golden … Continue reading
In the Shadow of the Empress
Now that the yellow dress is mostly complete I’ve begun adding the shadows cast by the Empress onto the bodies beside her, imagining where the light falls. The orange dress needed a lot of work, with much of it dropping … Continue reading
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Drop Shadows, Lighten Fabric
The base work for the pattern is complete, and a couple of my students said “I’d wear that dress” so I think I’ll let this dry, lighten it up a bit, then pop a bit of yellow into it to … Continue reading
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Interlaced Dress
This is working well. I’ve created a pattern over the surface of the dress to break it up more effectively than the simple layered structure it had before. It’s a lot of work, taking plenty of time, partly because the … Continue reading
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