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Category Archives: Paintings
As the Crow Flies xviii
Hurrah! I finished painting crows, so apart from getting the eye hooks into the backs of the panels and a little touch up work to the painting the piece is hang-able. There’s a lot of gold in this show. I … Continue reading
As the Crow Flies xvii
I found about twelve more crow / raven photos that will be useful for the piece, so I’ve made a photoshop file combining them all onto one transparency, ready to paint on Monday morning. Everything seems to be in decent … Continue reading
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As the Crow Flies xvi
There was a great deal of administrative stufff to take care of this morning that ate up most of my time, but this afternoon I got to the studio and got a good chunk of work done, particularly dedicated to … Continue reading
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As the Crow Flies xv
Still more gilding today, finally completing this part of the project and giving us valuable experience. Having gilded so many panels we have learned what not to do next time. Sadly, because we have to be consistent we have had … Continue reading
The Principle ii
The process of getting the installation ready is beginning to heat up as the date comes closer. It’s beginning to feel as if we will never see the end of the gilding. Cameron and I continued to lay gold down … Continue reading
As the Crow Flies xiv
I went through the large number of crow and raven images I shot over the last few months and isolated the birds from their backgrounds, then made a transparency and threw it onto my old overhead projector. This allowed me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, gold, nigredo
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As the Crow Flies xiii
I painted crows onto many of the panels, but found that I quickly noticed repetition, so I need to prepare a new photoshop file of images to project onto the panels. Projection is an old painter’s trick for creating murals … Continue reading
As the Crow Flies xii
The panels we prepared last Sunday and yesterday are dry enough to move, so I’m taking them home so I can work on them over the weekend. They’re pretty smelly because the size is a nasty material. I think I … Continue reading
Back to school
I spent a happy couple of hours in the studio gilding this morning before running out of both gold leaf and time, but it was very productive, so I’m cautiously optimistic that the big crow piece will be ready in … Continue reading
Bombers xxiv
Here’s a snapshot of the lantern, which I painted a week ago, but forgot to post. In the painting it’s representative of the element fire. (Water is the grail cup, earth is the square on the stone, air the hole … Continue reading
