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Category Archives: Making work
Death
  Here’s the complete first layer of the bone man. I did a bit of research on scythes, being uncertain of the appearance of those  found in the old cards because I remember using one when I was a kid mowing … Continue reading
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Bones
I haven’t painted a complete skeleton for a very long time – I think since I was a student at Swindon College of Art and Design in 1983, which seems a ridiculously long time ago – so working on the … Continue reading
Tarot Death, Renaissance emblem book
After dealing with administrative stuff there’s nothing better than getting into the studio and working on something creative. The administrative work is totally necessary if we’re going to improve the art department at the university, and I enjoy seeing projects … Continue reading
Mineral alchemy
I got back to the lab today, after quite a long break, spending a very pleasant hour with my friend John Tannacci, who  helped me to begin heating the ground up sandstone from the Red Rock Canyon in an electric … Continue reading
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The sun and the moon
                      Here’s the fruit of the work today, a night sky with the beginning of a sun and moon, and a couple of weird … Continue reading
Mr. blue sky
If you want to make a really brilliant blue, red or yellow field in a painting one of the best ways to do it is to paint the area you’re looking at white, then put a coat of transparent paint … Continue reading
             You’ll see that the handle of Justice’s sword has been wrapped in a twisted leather, binding it so that Justice can keep her grip on the sword … Continue reading
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Just ice
I’ve been very preoccupied with getting things ready for Megan and Murray, who are coming to the gallery tonight, starting work on their installation for the university. After making sure that they had a place to stay I continued working on … Continue reading
Angels
There are two layers of gesso on each of the four pieces I stretched yesterday, and I’ve been looking at these tall canvases considering how to use them, and I keep coming back to an image of white figures emerging … Continue reading
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Practical
Continuing with the practical mood, I stretched some left over ends of canvas that I’ve been saving for a while, simply stapling them onto the face of some good quality plywood with plastic sheeting covering the front of it. Once … Continue reading
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