Category Archives: Paintings

Storm xxi

Posted on July 20, 2008 by pearce

The ivy is thoroughly laid in now, still pretty crude, but you can see the structure of it. After I shot these pictures I continued to paint the leaves upward on the side of Amelia’s body. I really like the … Continue reading →

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The Golden Bowl iv

Posted on July 18, 2008 by pearce

Here’s the drawing with the fifth figure added to the right side. There’s still some tweaking to be done: in particular I’m not thrilled with the figure on the left. I gave him a book, but it doesn’t really work, … Continue reading →

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Storm XX

Posted on July 18, 2008 by pearce

  Surprise! I began painting the ivy in the Aviator’s Dream at last. I’ve been putting it off for so long now that it was getting silly and I really have no good reason for not wanting to do the … Continue reading →

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The Golden Bowl iii

Posted on July 17, 2008 by pearce

I spent an hour or so fixing the figure that I didn’t like and tweaking the composition a bit. The structure of the painting is based on the five pointed pentagram, like the star on American Air Force planes, military … Continue reading →

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The Golden Bowl ii

Posted on July 17, 2008 by pearce

I spent a pleasant hour or two drawing a couple more figures onto the sketch for the Golden Bowl painting. I’m pretty happy that the painting will go the way I want it to; it’s a bit smaller and the … Continue reading →

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The Golden Bowl

Posted on July 14, 2008 by pearce

I started drawing The Golden Bowl painting directly onto the canvas which is not my usual practice, but I’m impatient to make stuff! I’m quite excited about the piece. It’s unusually small compared to the rest of my work, but … Continue reading →

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Falling off i

Posted on July 8, 2008 by pearce

I shot reference pictures of ivy for the Aviator’s Dream painting, but the sun was far too high in the for them to be really useful other than as a resource for the shapes of the leaves and how the … Continue reading →

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Recharged

Posted on July 5, 2008 by pearce

I’m back from a week in the mountains camping in the forest with no internet access and no cellphones. Fantastic! I slept under the open sky each night, looking for satellites, spotting shooting stars and bathed in starlight. Scorpio was … Continue reading →

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As the crow flies VII

Posted on June 20, 2008 by pearce

Today’s progress was minimal, but effective. I worked on adding colour to the second en grisaille layer, which I never did take a picture of. The first layer of colour has gone down pretty well, as usual I see an … Continue reading →

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As the crow flies VI

Posted on June 20, 2008 by pearce

Sandy sent this piece of Ted Hughes’ work as a comment. I thought it was fabulous, so here it is as a post too. Thanks for sending it Sandy.   Ted Hughes – From the Life and Songs of the Crow   … Continue reading →

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