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Category Archives: Paintings
Knot again
I’ve made a few changes to the painting following a few days with my kids beside the ocean in Malibu. In the first picture you can see that the water has highlights of reflected light from the cloud base above, … Continue reading
This is knot a water bottle (Ceci n’est pas une bouteille?)
I’ve been sketching a design for the traveler’s water bottle, doing this prep work not least because it’s partly covered by his jacket. It would be very difficult to render a partially covered interlace that felt right directly onto the … Continue reading
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Lucky
The Traveler has gained some jeans and a flask at his belt. This first layer is a little bright, so I’ll drop it back a bit later on with some Van Dyke Brown to deepen the shadows. I’ve added highlights … Continue reading
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Monkey king
The biggest change to the painting resulting from yesterday’s work is that the valley floor has finally become an ocean, ending my vacillation about whether or not this should be land or sea. The water is a little light right … Continue reading
More path work
I’ve decided that the traveler is carrying a dagger at his thigh – the shape materialized from the sketched first layer and I liked it, so I emphasized it on the canvas while I was putting a layer of blue … Continue reading
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Rock and Roll
A second visit to the creation of a stone pathway worked out pretty well, resulting in this pebble track leading to the cliff’s edge. I wanted to make sure that the traveler’s journey was clearly to the precipice, not onward … Continue reading
Feet on the ground
A very productive day in the studio! I did a lot of cleanup work this evening, fixing the figure up with some black shoes, deepening the shadows of his bag, clarifying the shadows of the jacket, glazing his over-white shirt … Continue reading
On the left
. . . . . . . . . It’s strange that time can evaporate so quickly when we are absorbed in tasks that occupy our attention above all other things – I spent two or three hours painting these … Continue reading
Foreground and disaster
My easel is very large and I have always extolled its virtues, but yesterday it suffered a total disaster when one of the pulleys used to pull up the shelf that holds the canvas snapped – made from cheap cast … Continue reading
Millais’ Ophelia
My student Cameron pointed out that the lush foliage in this painting reminds him of Millais’ Ophelia, which is exhibited at the Tate National in London. It’s a beautiful painting of the drowning of Hamlet’s lover, described in poetic detail … Continue reading
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