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Category Archives: Tarot-related paintings
Base layers
With the sealed canvas dry and ready for the first painting work to begin Joe, Jason, Devin and Casey started to put down the base en grisaille layer. Because my goal is to have the painting feel filled with the … Continue reading
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Sealed
We had a great day in the studio today, with the Virtues canvas completely sealed with Iron Oxide Red and ready to paint tomorrow after a good night’s drying. Casey did most of the work, seen in the right hand … Continue reading
Fresh canvas
I’ve replaced the angel with this lovely new canvas, preparing to draw the pencil version of the Empress (the Angel of Birth). I decided to give the Angel of Death a rest for a while simply because I’m not particularly … Continue reading
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Seasons
My new colleague Bela Bacsi gave me a nice little pack of playing cards from Eastern Europe, including these lovely images of the four seasons which of course relate to the four paintings that I’ve been working on: Winter = In Between … Continue reading
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Students Blogs
My students are going to keep blogs of their experience of working on the big painting with me; here are a couple of them: Joseph Clarkson Tuan “Jason” Nguyen I’ll post the others as they are made. I think it’s … Continue reading
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Faith, Hope and Charity
Yesterday we shot more pictures of Devin; this time as the virtues Faith, Hope and Charity. Because these three figures stand on the left of the bright light at the centre of the painting we re-arranged the lighting on her … Continue reading
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Emerging Grace
The outline of the four figures has been drawn onto the canvas, after a bit of fiddling around with composition. The blue lines in the background are the coastline, cut by the grey lines of the low wall behind the … Continue reading
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Structure
A little more work on the structure of the painting has made the shape of the piece even clearer, and I’m really enjoying the process. Continuing our work of using chalk and blue pencils to establish different features of the … Continue reading
Landscape
With a couple of hours in the studio yesterday I managed to achieve a couple of tasks that were both important for making the paintings effective, but neither producing particularly interesting photographs for the blog. I got to work on … Continue reading
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Sources for the Virtues
With a little sketching and contemplation the composition is becoming clear, and more lines are on the canvas to guide the drawing of the Virtues. My students have been invaluable help because much of this work requires three people simply … Continue reading
