Category Archives: Alchemical paintings

  Here’s a shot of the box, showing the direction it’s going in. There are some obvious problems to fix related to dimension – presently the unfolding side has no thickness, so it will need a highlight and an edge … Continue reading →

     A few detail shots of the piece after yesterday’s work. The painting’s coming along well.  

Today I worked on darkening the sky to the right of the clouds, the sea and the island. I’m not even close to completing the sea and I really must go and look at the ocean, but this is a … Continue reading →

  Here’s the first sweep at the sky, an ultramarine blue over the white, easy on the medium. I’ll darken the sky a lot more because it’s way too bright right now and then I’ll work some details into the … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on the painting today after what seems like a very long break; it feels good to be back in the studio after all the work on the bottle piece.   The colour is a little off in … Continue reading →

Today’s progress. She’s wearing her aviator goggles now, and a triangular necklace. I added much more definition into the face and flying helmet and knifed a layer of flesh tones onto the man, who is taking his proper place in … Continue reading →

No time! In an all too fast ten minute space I managed to add a scraped on coat of Raw Sienna to the flying helmet, which is beginning to approach its finished sheepskin appearance. I laid on the paint then … Continue reading →

I used the knife to develop the surface of the skin of both figures.  The woman in the foreground needs more work than the man, because she’s so much closer to the viewer. I darkened the rock surface and added … Continue reading →