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Category Archives: Making work
Load in
Most of the works are in the gallery for the Brand exhibit, leaving the alchemical paintings, the tarot paintings and several sculptures still to bring to the space. It’s been an enormous amount of work to get ready and to … Continue reading
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Thank you!
Many thanks to Lukas and Nate, who helped me to clean up the tree, repainting the tubes where they had been scraped during shipping and sanding and gluing the boxes that will accompany it when it’s installed. Lukas brought the … Continue reading
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A face for the Man
At last the Geomantic Man has a face that I’m happy with, much more cheerful and appropriately solar. Later today I’ll line the edges that still need cleaning up after the silver leaf work I did last time I worked … Continue reading
Scorched earth
I added burned and blackened plants to the mortar gaps in the wall, using a liner brush with ivory black, then a mix of it with Titanium white, using the darker paint for a general leafy look gently softened with a clean rag, … Continue reading
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Roses
I love California’s weather for its kindness to roses – here you can grow plants that will bloom almost all year round, and I’ve often bragged about them to my father on the telephone as he looks out over his rain-swept English … Continue reading
Posted in Alchemical work, Making work, Sources, Tarot-related paintings
Tagged Alchemical work, Crucifixion, mysticism, oil painting, rosicrucian
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Back to the wall
Photographer Brian Stethem came over this morning and shot photos of the three completed tarot paintings Death, Justice and Temperance. I’ll use the shots to produce small posters and prints for the Brand, and perhaps our University bookstore. It was … Continue reading
The wall
Here’s the result of the days work. I put a second layer of flesh tones on the legs, defined the white towel with some burnt sienna and worked a little longer on the wall, which obviously needs much more work. This layer’s … Continue reading
Another brick in the wall
I’ve been laying down the stones in the wall by first painting the dark shadows between the stones, then adding a layer of grays and white to the faces of the stones. I modified the shape and texture of the … Continue reading
Legs and cloth
I worked on the legs of the twins in the Sun painting, building a decent first layer of skin tones over the rough sketch version – still pretty rough, but making sense of the structures of the feet and knees. … Continue reading
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Tagged Tarot-related paintings
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