Category Archives: Arthurian

Leaf Alone

Now the basic white layer of the leaves is done it’s time to render the leaves and flowers in my customary brown. This is satisfying work that’s going to be a big feature of the finished painting – imagine that … Continue reading

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The New Romantic Figure Paintings – The Queen of Cups, The Star

  I’m very pleased to publish these two pictures of The Queen of Cups and the Star as they appear in the New Romantic Figure exhibit. I love the tabernacle frames. We’ve matched the colour of the decorative trim around … Continue reading

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Frame up

What a treat it was to see the paintings in these frames for the first time! Although they were still only painted with primer this morning I could see that they will lift the paintings into an altogether different plane. … Continue reading

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Architecture!

I’ve added the bones of new sections of window to the left of the painting in a rethink of the architecture of the painting, mostly because I dislike the small size of the window as it was, but also simply … Continue reading

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Shadows and Light

Putting shadow beside the Lady, the sword and the grail made everything feel far more three dimensional. The sword casts an interesting shadow shape which I enjoyed working out, while the grail is much closer to the wall, so the … Continue reading

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Leaded

Working on the painting yesterday and today turned into a real pleasure, with a major change to the composition with the addition of some leaded glass behind the Queen and a base layer for the sword and grail. The window … Continue reading

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The Sword and the Grail

  I realized that the perspective of the window was a little askew, so I’ve enlarged one of the receding walls a little and narrowed the other to accommodate a correction. The window is a little smaller as a result, … Continue reading

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Grail Fresco

       I’ve used Bembo’s illustrations for the Tales of Lancelot to produce a fresco along the wall behind the Queen, referring to the work of Botticelli, his great contemporary, for the feel of the faded paint of fresco paintings. (I love the Botticelli frescos … Continue reading

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Bonifacio Bembo

I’ve been mulling over how to approach the mural that I wanted to put onto the wall on the upper right side of the painting, but after a lot of thought I’ve decided that the composition works best if the … Continue reading

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This Ear and Fingers

Because the hand was quite inelegant I’ve extended the fingers and flattened them out from their original bunched position, altered her arm by making it thinner and repainted the base layer of the sky and landscape around it. The white … Continue reading

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