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Category Archives: Tarot-related paintings
Treat
A fantastic surprise arrived in the studio today – a sideway monitor that I can plug my computer into for showing reference pictures – now I can see images vertically instead of horizontally. This matters because it allows me to … Continue reading
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Sun in the Dawn Sky
After another busy day taking care of administrative stuff for the coming year I made it to the studio with my friend Rich Brimer, the landscape painter, where we spent a pleasant hour together. I painted while he sat and … Continue reading
Hillcrest
After a busy day taking care of administrative work for the new semester I took two paintings to the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks (Civic Center Drive Thousand Oaks, CA 91360)Â for a show there. I was last … Continue reading
Beckett plays
I spent a pleasant morning driving to Santa Barbara to meet up with everyone involved in the Beckett production that I’m designing for John Blondell. It looks as though the consensus of opinion is that everything should be as stripped … Continue reading
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Head and sky
Finding a couple of spare hours in the studio, I cleaned brushes and got to work on the sky, using a Cobalt blue to the orange clouds on the upper right and repairing the error I made last time, caused … Continue reading
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Silence
Apparently losing your speech doesn’t improve your painting. I’m down to whispering for short periods of time, then running out of words completely, and painting rubbish. I worked at the sky for a couple of hours today, totally failing to … Continue reading
Voiceless
I have totally lost my voice! It’s alarming to try to speak to visitors only to hear a croaking noise come out, although there’s something strangely pleasant about not being able to talk that I can’t quite put my finger … Continue reading
Eastern Sky
I built the Traveler’s sky this morning with Flake white and a little Ivory black, then letting that set up for a while during grocery shopping time, then scraping on some of that nice bright Ceramic White over the top … Continue reading
Good times in the studio
I had a busy, busy day today. I picked up Amelia from the High Studio a few days ago, where she had been waiting for me for a month or so and finally got to do some work to her. … Continue reading
Handy
I’ve added the first layer of the left hand, and repainted the whites in the left arm. He’s again looking more like the rock star death that he was earlier in the process, and will get increasingly strong when his … Continue reading
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