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Category Archives: Making work
Flu
Goodness, I feel awful. My head is full of cotton wool. I’ve glazed both of the wings with the oxide now, so neither are as overly blue as they were, and I re-rendered the skull and began working on correcting … Continue reading
An oxide sky
I picked up the six tubes of Iron Oxide that I asked Steve to order for me and finished sealing the Traveling man canvas, which is now completely covered (to varying degrees of thickness) by that lovely glow of rusty … Continue reading
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Subtlety
I added a couple of subtle layers to the painting yesterday afternoon that don’t photograph well at all, but were very worthwhile; first some detail and definition in the internal structures of the wings – painted in dense Prussian blue … Continue reading
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Atmospheric perspective
A layer of Van Dyke Brown mixed with some Ivory black dropped the blue down a bit, then a glaze of Ceramic White above the horizon in the sky and below it into the distant landscape gave some depth to … Continue reading
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Productive
This was a particularly productive day in the studio, getting the sky much further along by adding a blended blue / grey to the higher parts of the clouds, then a rough scraping of white controlled with a soft rag. … Continue reading
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And
Here’s the big picture of the painting as it is right now, with loads of Prussian blue over everything except the Iron Oxide sky and the skulls. I’m quite sure that a lot of this will change, but this was … Continue reading
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The stuff I love when I’m painting
This is it, right here. I love how I can wipe away the blue from the edges of the figure, leaving just a trace of paint that makes the edge softer and appear to fall away from the foreground. It … Continue reading
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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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