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Category Archives: Making work
Bombers x
Because of technical difficulties at the old site the blog will be here at https://gildedraven.com from now on. Please bookmark it. I worked on the hermit in Bombers, painting a velatura skin and emphasizing the shadows between the rocks in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, astronomy, mysticism, oils
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The Golden Bowl xi
I painted a beautiful face for the girl on the lower left of the painting today, then for some reason decided that it wasn’t quite right and wiped it away. This was an error because for the next twenty minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, painting, pentagram
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Sky
Fabulous sky tonight. Maybe I’ll use this for one of the paintings one day. Â Photo by ElizabethÂ
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Bombers ix
Mountains en grisaille. Slow progress today, but it’s coming together. I want to make the range on the right light and that on the left dark, as it is at the Trona Pinnacles. It’s an additional layer of symbolic duality … Continue reading
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Crucifixion xi
  It’s finished.Â
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Studio visit
Bert Green is coming over to see what I’ve been making, so I decided that I should get what I have spread out and see what state things are in. Paintings don’t stay perfect forever, and need occasional maintenance to … Continue reading
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Storm xxv
Ogre was still wet, so I couldn’t do more to the crucifixion, so instead I worked on finishing up Amelia’s face and spent a long time defining the shadows of the ivy and getting detail work into the jewelry and … Continue reading
Bombers viii
I searched through my pictures for a long time this morning, looking for my landscape shots from the trip I made up there in December. Somehow I misplaced all of the horizontal images in the computer, and couldn’t find them … Continue reading
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Tagged 1.62, Alchemical work, david bowie, death valley, painting
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Bombers vii
Working on the figure in Bombers is reflective of the fairly solitary life of a painter. I spend large amounts of time alone in the studio painting, sometimes seeing almost nobody. Yesterday I spoke to eight people all day including … Continue reading
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Crucifixion x
I found my source pictures for the crucifixion dating back from 2000, when Ogre came over to visit and posed for the painting. I worked at the face for a couple of hours, getting a good layer down. It’s clearly … Continue reading
