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Category Archives: Paintings
Bombers xv
Now the sky is grey almost all the orange has disappeared, giving a clear idea of how the painting will end up. The sky will end up blue, so I added in some cobalt blue pigment into a grey mix, … Continue reading
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A New Cabinet
Jake, Jillian and I went over to the camarillo campus of State University Channel Islands to take the remainder of the show down. It went smoothly and we were back in time for a touch more work on the painting. … Continue reading
Bombers xiv
Definitely over the hump as far as that bad patch went. I had a fun morning getting some shadows laid down, with a strong frontal light implied by the long shadows falling behind the figure and stones. It really has … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, mysticism, oil
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Bombers xiii
Another less than perfect morning in the studio, but I did do some editing of the shape of the head, the shoulder and the knee which I’ll keep. He should probably get an ear sometime, or he’ll be a perpetual … Continue reading
Bombers xii
I went to Camarillo to pick up the sculptures from the gallery and put them into the studio so Bert can see them alongside the paintings. As I think I have already said, I intend to start introducing images from … Continue reading
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Tagged bert green, Cabinet of Neolithic Wonders, synthesis
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Bombers xi
The dark spaces in between are most important in the early stages of a painting, the way I like to make them, anyway. I lay down the shapes of the dark shadows and work out from them, upward toward light. … Continue reading
As the crow flies viii
When I realized that I was getting sick today (which explains why my painting has been crappy for a couple of days) I had a choice: Either stop painting for a while and go home and watch a movie, or … Continue reading
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Bombers x
Because of technical difficulties at the old site the blog will be here at https://gildedraven.com from now on. Please bookmark it. I worked on the hermit in Bombers, painting a velatura skin and emphasizing the shadows between the rocks in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, astronomy, mysticism, oils
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The Golden Bowl xi
I painted a beautiful face for the girl on the lower left of the painting today, then for some reason decided that it wasn’t quite right and wiped it away. This was an error because for the next twenty minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemical work, painting, pentagram
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The Golden Bowl x
Working on smaller paintings is much more fiddly and cautious than the big ones. Here’s the result of this morning’s work to clean up the central figure in “The Golden Bowl”, which I’m beginning to enjoy immensely. There’s something slightly … Continue reading
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