Category Archives: Tarot-related paintings

Flu

Posted on December 24, 2009 by pearce

Goodness, I feel awful. My head is full of cotton wool. I’ve glazed both of the wings with the oxide now, so neither are as overly blue as they were, and I re-rendered the skull and began working on correcting … Continue reading →

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An oxide sky

Posted on December 16, 2009 by pearce

I picked up the six tubes of Iron Oxide that I asked Steve to order for me and finished sealing the Traveling man canvas, which is now completely covered (to varying degrees of thickness) by that lovely glow of rusty … Continue reading →

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Subtlety

Posted on December 16, 2009 by pearce

I added a couple of subtle layers to the painting yesterday afternoon that don’t photograph well at all, but were very worthwhile; first some detail and definition in the internal structures of the wings – painted in dense Prussian blue … Continue reading →

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Atmospheric perspective

Posted on December 12, 2009 by pearce

A layer of Van Dyke Brown mixed with some Ivory black dropped the blue down a bit, then a glaze of Ceramic White above the horizon in the sky and below it into the distant landscape gave some depth to … Continue reading →

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And

Posted on December 8, 2009 by pearce

Here’s the big picture of the painting as it is right now, with loads of Prussian blue over everything except the Iron Oxide sky and the skulls. I’m quite sure that a lot of this will change, but this was … Continue reading →

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The stuff I love when I’m painting

Posted on December 8, 2009 by pearce

This is it, right here. I love how I can wipe away the blue from the edges of the figure, leaving just a trace of paint that makes the edge softer and appear to fall away from the foreground. It … Continue reading →

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Iron Oxide

Posted on December 4, 2009 by pearce

I got lots of work done pretty quickly during the afternoon yesterday. The sky is shaping up well with a new layer of transparent Iron Oxide helping it to look quite dramatic, but it’s still lacking a few more layers … Continue reading →

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Fool and the Black Sky

Posted on December 1, 2009 by pearce

Remember those large pallette knives I bought at Continental last week? I’ve been using the long thin one to scrape on lead white for juicy cloud highlights. First I’ll put the paint onto the canvas using a small sized knife, … Continue reading →

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Shoot

Posted on November 29, 2009 by pearce

Taking pictures of Cody for reference for the Traveler went well, so I’m pretty confident that I’ll be able to get moving with the painting once I grid out the canvas and draw the man in the setting. As usual … Continue reading →

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Sky

Posted on November 28, 2009 by pearce

While waiting for my student to arrive to be photographed I painted a greyscale sky behind death. I let it get pretty dark so that there is an ominous sense to it, with cracks of light appearing in the sky … Continue reading →

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