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Category Archives: Making work
The Devil
I’ve been chatting with my friend Sean Sobczak (he makes those beautiful light sculptures) about posing for the Devil card, one of the most dramatic in the deck. Clearly intended as a warning against enslavement to vice of all kinds, the … Continue reading
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Woodshop
We’ve started making progress turning the little studio next to the large painting studio into a woodshop, clearing out paintings that were being stored there and moving carpentry equipment in. Tomorrow we’ll build work benches along one of the walls … Continue reading
Twins
Building up the skin tone with a second layer, the boys are beginning to take shape as people instead of blobby blue things. Pretty rough at present, looking forward to subsequent layers refining and fixing them. Half of the battle … Continue reading
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Sky layers
I liked the earlier work on the sky, but felt that the clouds needed a little more substance, so this afternoon I took the easel outside and painted from the white cumulus clouds drifting smartly across the California blue sky. … Continue reading
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The sun and the sky
I liked the cloudy sky in the Temperance painting well enough to do the same thing in the Sun piece, laying down a patchy coat of blue, ragged off carefully to avoid all the gold – fiddly work because of … Continue reading
Background of Justice
It’s one hundred percent humidity here in Thousand Oaks (it’s raining), so my paint won’t dry, but being unable to continue with the Sun meant that I had no good excuse for not getting back to Justice, who needs a … Continue reading
Discipline
I learned a valuable lesson about discipline today – first I came upon this photo and Reuters story about a Buddhist monk who has repeated his obeisance in the same spot so often that his footprints have been deeply worn into the … Continue reading
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Peach tree in action / Sunshine
There are a huge number of photos of the dress rehearsal of Muéveme, Muévete  here, including some good images of the set and lighting work I designed for the show. I put in some time on the sky of the Sun painting, … Continue reading
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Tarot Blog
There’s a particularly interesting, if skeptical blog about the origin of tarot cards here. Very objective in his stance, the writer is only interested in factual sources and is determined to cut through speculative occult theories to find out what … Continue reading
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Back to the studio
Still feeling pretty crummy this morning, enough to skip yoga and running, but I went to class and had the pleasant experience of teaching a bright and wide awake group of students life painting and drawing. I managed to find … Continue reading
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