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Category Archives: Making work
Space
I’m interested in finding space in the paintings. I tend to fill my canvases with figures, and I think I’d like to find some tension in the composition by leaving large areas of space. I took that 48″ x 72″ … Continue reading
Virtues
I sealed the two canvases with some burnt sienna and medium over the drawings, wiping much of the paint of with a rag. The drawings drop back into the rich oxide and become harder to see, but the marks are … Continue reading
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Virtues
I’ve drawn Temperance and Justice and I’m pleased with both. This evening I’ll seal them both with some burnt sienna so that they’re ready to go. These look really good as first passes into the painting foray, so I’m full … Continue reading
Justice
Here she is! I’m happy with the composition, laid down the centre line of the panel, with the figure centred on the navel. She’s looking good. I put a blindfold over her eyes, as is traditional for blind justice, and … Continue reading
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The Golden Bowl xvi
I laid in a layer of Ultramarine Blue over the entire painting, using a large, soft sable brush to blend the background area to a smooth finish, then using a many-times-laundered cotton rag to remove most of the paint from … Continue reading
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Om…
Sometimes it’s not possible to focus on making work. Today was just one of those days, with a lot of bad personal voodoo going on, but I still feel as though it was productive and successful to some degree. My … Continue reading
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Soft edges
I decided to make a brief post about painting the background of the Golden Bowl. It took quite a while, because there were a lot of fiddly bits that needed attention to soften the edges into each other. If you … Continue reading
The Golden Bowl xv
In between preparing the canvases for the virtues I managed to get a layer of black onto the lower part of the painting, making a far darker composition which I like very much. The sky will get a layer of … Continue reading
Preparation
I’ve stretched canvas to three panels for the virtues, slapped on three coats of gesso to prime them (with the help of my son, who now thinks forest fires are terrific because he has no school today – is this … Continue reading
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After the fire
Ethan and I took the mighty hound up into the mountains behind the house to see what the fire had done to our landscape, with Ethan particularly concerned to visit the golden fish that bizarrely live in a concrete cattle … Continue reading
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