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Category Archives: Making work
Preparation
This is a beautiful thing. It’s the giant pile of panels that is now leaning against the East wall of the studio waiting for images to be painted upon them. There are four eight feet square panels and all of … Continue reading
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Layered Bones
  The twins are drying behind me now, having traded places with Death, whose posture reminds me of a metal guitarist and makes me smile each time I look at him. I’ve spent a happy hour or two working on the … Continue reading
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Handy
Three hands, two heads. Finally back on a roll, I got the body and arm of the left hand boy more fully realized, fixed the outline of the right hand and repainted the background, which had become quite dirty from … Continue reading
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Alexander and the Brahman
The words of the Brahman to Alexander the Great, from Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander: “King Alexander, each man possesses no more of this earth than the patch we stand on; yet you, though a man like other men, except of … Continue reading
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Twin two
The second twin’s face has another layer of paint on it because I realized that I had made an error in the positioning of the nose and mouth when I had my first go at it. The right hand eye … Continue reading
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Sticks and stones
I’m working on getting these hands right, and moving over to the lad on the right side of the painting. It’s been surprisingly humid here this past few days, so the paint is taking a long time to dry, narrowing … Continue reading
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Clearing the Sun
I thought I would add a little to the previous post by commenting that the hair on the boy on the left is grey now so that it can become blonde later – in the next layer I’ll put some … Continue reading
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Sun son
Back in the studio at last, working on the face of my son, who is both of the twins in this painting. I like to redefine the features of the face and hands at least twice during the process of … Continue reading
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Ganymede
I feel a little foolish posting the second picture, because it represents so little actual painting work, but quite a lot of investigation into the background of Temperance in the renaissance symbolism that lies behind the tarot cards of the … Continue reading
Complete Justice
I had a little window of opportunity to fill this afternoon, so while Death dried behind me I set to work putting the finishing details onto Justice, including a delicate balance suspended from her hand. I decided to make a very … Continue reading
