Category Archives: Making work

En Grisaille and Velatura

Posted on March 7, 2008 by pearce

Some words are delicious, and beg repetition. Two words from painting have been on my tongue repeatedly this week: “en grisaille” and “velatura”. They’re lovely rich words, made even richer when you learn what importance they had to many old … Continue reading →

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Numbers by painting III

Posted on March 1, 2008 by pearce

  I’ve done quite a lot of sketches now for the numbers series. The canvases were all ready to go by Friday morning, so I started laying out some of the drawings. By evening I painted on the first layer … Continue reading →

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Fama almost complete

Posted on February 29, 2008 by pearce

I’m putting in the last details on the Fama piece, simultaneously working on the numbers paintings. Two photos here to show where things are going.     I’ve added in some knifed on lead white highlights with a lovely transparent iron … Continue reading →

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Earth day bottles II

Posted on February 27, 2008 by pearce

I’ve been thinking about the earth day project. In the past I’ve made a labyrinth pathway of stones, and one cut into the turf. Wouldn’t it be great to eventually make four labyrinths, one made of each element, air, earth, fire … Continue reading →

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Numbers by painting II

Posted on February 25, 2008 by pearce

  Moving ahead with the boxes, I poured good quality gesso onto the previously primed panel and used a 1/4″ quarter round piece of molding to spread it around the surface. This gives me a nice thick textured surface to … Continue reading →

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Earth Day bottles

Posted on February 21, 2008 by pearce

I’ve put an upside down table outside the gallery at CLU ready to receive empty water bottles. I hope our students will help me collect enough of them to do the installation. 534 to go! HELP! I guess that a … Continue reading →

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Numbers by painting

Posted on February 14, 2008 by pearce

I’m beginning a series of paintings of numbers using Pythagorean and Renaissance alchemical ideas about how numbers represent divine order. I have seven boxes that I have stretched canvas onto, now I’ll lay on plenty of Gesso to prepare them. … Continue reading →

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Reed beds

Posted on February 14, 2008 by pearce

I loved this! The reeds have been cropped back to about 6 inches high, creating these little islands of reeds distributed in the mud. Great imaginative food for me. I’ll make something inspired by this arrangement sometime in the future. … Continue reading →

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Potential sites for Earth Day installation

Posted on February 14, 2008 by pearce

       There are some interesting choices at the mall. I particularly like the oak tree idea, as it ties in to the reading I’ve been doing on alchemy. Alternatively I have been imagining a teardrop made of the bottles suspended … Continue reading →

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Earth Day Installation

Posted on February 13, 2008 by pearce

I’ve been asked to create an installation for the Simi Valley Town Centre to celebrate Earth Day. Each year an average family will use as much as 836 bottles of water. Most of those bottles end up as land fill. … Continue reading →

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