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Category Archives: Paintings
Bones
I haven’t painted a complete skeleton for a very long time – I think since I was a student at Swindon College of Art and Design in 1983, which seems a ridiculously long time ago – so working on the … Continue reading
Tarot Death, Renaissance emblem book
After dealing with administrative stuff there’s nothing better than getting into the studio and working on something creative. The administrative work is totally necessary if we’re going to improve the art department at the university, and I enjoy seeing projects … Continue reading
The sun and the moon
                      Here’s the fruit of the work today, a night sky with the beginning of a sun and moon, and a couple of weird … Continue reading
Mr. blue sky
If you want to make a really brilliant blue, red or yellow field in a painting one of the best ways to do it is to paint the area you’re looking at white, then put a coat of transparent paint … Continue reading
Just ice
I’ve been very preoccupied with getting things ready for Megan and Murray, who are coming to the gallery tonight, starting work on their installation for the university. After making sure that they had a place to stay I continued working on … Continue reading
The Devil
I’ve been chatting with my friend Sean Sobczak (he makes those beautiful light sculptures) about posing for the Devil card, one of the most dramatic in the deck. Clearly intended as a warning against enslavement to vice of all kinds, the … Continue reading
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Woodshop
We’ve started making progress turning the little studio next to the large painting studio into a woodshop, clearing out paintings that were being stored there and moving carpentry equipment in. Tomorrow we’ll build work benches along one of the walls … Continue reading
Twins
Building up the skin tone with a second layer, the boys are beginning to take shape as people instead of blobby blue things. Pretty rough at present, looking forward to subsequent layers refining and fixing them. Half of the battle … Continue reading
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The sun and the sky
I liked the cloudy sky in the Temperance painting well enough to do the same thing in the Sun piece, laying down a patchy coat of blue, ragged off carefully to avoid all the gold – fiddly work because of … Continue reading
Background of Justice
It’s one hundred percent humidity here in Thousand Oaks (it’s raining), so my paint won’t dry, but being unable to continue with the Sun meant that I had no good excuse for not getting back to Justice, who needs a … Continue reading
