Category Archives: Paintings

Iron Oxide

Posted on December 4, 2009 by pearce

I got lots of work done pretty quickly during the afternoon yesterday. The sky is shaping up well with a new layer of transparent Iron Oxide helping it to look quite dramatic, but it’s still lacking a few more layers … Continue reading →

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Fool and the Black Sky

Posted on December 1, 2009 by pearce

Remember those large pallette knives I bought at Continental last week? I’ve been using the long thin one to scrape on lead white for juicy cloud highlights. First I’ll put the paint onto the canvas using a small sized knife, … Continue reading →

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Shoot

Posted on November 29, 2009 by pearce

Taking pictures of Cody for reference for the Traveler went well, so I’m pretty confident that I’ll be able to get moving with the painting once I grid out the canvas and draw the man in the setting. As usual … Continue reading →

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Sky

Posted on November 28, 2009 by pearce

While waiting for my student to arrive to be photographed I painted a greyscale sky behind death. I let it get pretty dark so that there is an ominous sense to it, with cracks of light appearing in the sky … Continue reading →

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Hella sunset

Posted on November 28, 2009 by pearce

Looking through my files of photo reference materials I found this shot of the Stones of Steness, on Orkney, which brought back some great memories of midsummer sunset on the islands. I can use this as a source for the … Continue reading →

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Fool

Posted on November 28, 2009 by pearce

I’m posting a couple of pictures of the Fool from the Marseille and the Waite Rider decks so that I have a clear note of source material for the Traveling Man painting. I’ve always been fond of the Fool, who … Continue reading →

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Traveler sketched, skulls moving

Posted on November 25, 2009 by pearce

I’ve loosely sketched the traveler onto the panel to see how he looks in a very rough form at the actual size. It was enjoyable drawing at this scale, although I had to alter several things to become satisfied with … Continue reading →

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Golden Section

Posted on November 25, 2009 by pearce

I like to use the golden section as a compositional tool, just as the great artists of the renaissance did long ago, so it will come as no surprise that I’ve been working out how the Traveling Man painting will … Continue reading →

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Fool’s journey

Posted on November 23, 2009 by pearce

I’ve sketched a new version of the Traveling Man painting, based on a path that is receding from the picture plane over a hilltop, so that the landscape is low in the composition, and allowing a valley view that needn’t … Continue reading →

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Palette knives

Posted on November 20, 2009 by pearce

That dawn sky on Thursday of last week had a huge impact upon my thinking about how the Traveling Man painting will work. I had thought that the composition would be dominated by the road winding through a landscape, with … Continue reading →

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