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Bombers ix

Mountains en grisaille. Slow progress today, but it’s coming together. I want to make the range on the right light and that on the left dark, as it is at the Trona Pinnacles. It’s an additional layer of symbolic duality … Continue reading

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Storm xxv

Ogre was still wet, so I couldn’t do more to the crucifixion, so instead I worked on finishing up Amelia’s face and spent a long time defining the shadows of the ivy and getting detail work into the jewelry and … Continue reading

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Bombers viii

I searched through my pictures for a long time this morning, looking for my landscape shots from the trip I made up there in December. Somehow I misplaced all of the horizontal images in the computer, and couldn’t find them … Continue reading

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Bombers vii

Working on the figure in Bombers is reflective of the fairly solitary life of a painter. I spend large amounts of time alone in the studio painting, sometimes seeing almost nobody. Yesterday I spoke to eight people all day including … Continue reading

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Bombers vi

I spent a few hours working the white stone and the megaliths. The sky will have to wait, as I became quite tired and took an early lunch, then returned to work on the crucifixion.  

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Bombers v

After a slow start doing the en grisaille on the man things really flew along and I got the basic landscape laid down with the broken up lake bed isolated in grey. It looks pretty psychedelic right now in orange … Continue reading

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Bombers iv

Bombers got a layer of iron oxide to get the ball rolling. The graphite layer turned out to be quite fragile, so I was pretty cautious around the figure not to abrade the drawing too much. This preliminary layer doesn’t … Continue reading

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Golden Bowl ix

  I added some colour and a flesh velatura to the figures. They’re coming to life now. I’m a bit tired today, and it’s hard to get motivated, but I managed to get some important work done on all three … Continue reading

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Storm xxiv

I worked to finish Amelia’s face, adding moving the eye and putting some flesh tones over the grey layer, then adding some highlights right into the wet paint. It’s almost there now. I’m more satisfied with the positions of the … Continue reading

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Bombers iii

Bill Solomon came by this morning and showed me some of his extraordinary sculptural work. We have a good deal in common as far as 3d work goes. He has invented an imaginary culture that used artefacts made with gold and bark, … Continue reading

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