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Category Archives: Alchemical paintings
Bombers xi
The dark spaces in between are most important in the early stages of a painting, the way I like to make them, anyway. I lay down the shapes of the dark shadows and work out from them, upward toward light. … Continue reading
As the crow flies viii
When I realized that I was getting sick today (which explains why my painting has been crappy for a couple of days) I had a choice: Either stop painting for a while and go home and watch a movie, or … Continue reading
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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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The Golden Bowl x
Working on smaller paintings is much more fiddly and cautious than the big ones. Here’s the result of this morning’s work to clean up the central figure in “The Golden Bowl”, which I’m beginning to enjoy immensely. There’s something slightly … Continue reading
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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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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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Bombers vi
I spent a few hours working the white stone and the megaliths. The sky will have to wait, as I became quite tired and took an early lunch, then returned to work on the crucifixion. Â
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