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Category Archives: The Traveler
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
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
An oxide sky
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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Iron Oxide
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
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
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
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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Hella sunset
Looking through my files of photo reference materials I found this shot of the Stones of Steness, on Orkney, which brought back some great memories of midsummer sunset on the islands. I can use this as a source for the … Continue reading
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Fool
I’m posting a couple of pictures of the Fool from the Marseille and the Waite Rider decks so that I have a clear note of source material for the Traveling Man painting. I’ve always been fond of the Fool, who … Continue reading
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Traveler sketched, skulls moving
I’ve loosely sketched the traveler onto the panel to see how he looks in a very rough form at the actual size. It was enjoyable drawing at this scale, although I had to alter several things to become satisfied with … Continue reading
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