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Category Archives: Paintings
Devil in the details
I’ve been breaking down the composition of the Devil painting today, making construction lines on the canvas and sketching a little. I’m going to need a couple of models for this one, a man and a woman to pose as … Continue reading
Devil
I enjoyed spending an afternoon with Sean Sobczak, the light sculptor and my old friend. He’s posed for me several times now, twice as Christ, as a member of the crowd at the crucifixion and now as a swordsman and … Continue reading
Posted in Making work, Tarot-related paintings
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Study
I’m learning about the popular emblem books of the renaissance, which I had never heard of until very recently. When printing became popular in the fifteenth century some of the earliest best-selling editions were books of moral lessons accompanied by … Continue reading
Posted in Sources, Tarot-related paintings
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Ready…
I’ve been taking care of administrative work this last couple of days, in a rare fit of wanting to keep out of the studio for a couple of days after the intense work that went into getting the installations into … Continue reading
Take it slow
I took time for myself to get all the mundane stuff of life taken care of this morning – laundry especially – so after a Sunday afternoon nap I finally got to work at about four o’clock. I forget to … Continue reading
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Thank you!
Many thanks to Lukas and Nate, who helped me to clean up the tree, repainting the tubes where they had been scraped during shipping and sanding and gluing the boxes that will accompany it when it’s installed. Lukas brought the … Continue reading
Posted in Black birds, Making work, Tarot-related paintings
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Scorched earth
I added burned and blackened plants to the mortar gaps in the wall, using a liner brush with ivory black, then a mix of it with Titanium white, using the darker paint for a general leafy look gently softened with a clean rag, … Continue reading
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Roses
I love California’s weather for its kindness to roses – here you can grow plants that will bloom almost all year round, and I’ve often bragged about them to my father on the telephone as he looks out over his rain-swept English … Continue reading
Posted in Alchemical work, Making work, Sources, Tarot-related paintings
Tagged Alchemical work, Crucifixion, mysticism, oil painting, rosicrucian
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New images of Death, Temperance and justice
Here are the photos of the three cards as they are today (many thanks to Brian), feel free to click on them and download them at your pleasure, as long as you don’t use them for commercial purposes of any … Continue reading
Back to the wall
Photographer Brian Stethem came over this morning and shot photos of the three completed tarot paintings Death, Justice and Temperance. I’ll use the shots to produce small posters and prints for the Brand, and perhaps our University bookstore. It was … Continue reading
