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Two's company - or so the saying goes.there is something about twobarely touching - togethera different same.
Still wet, they look back at mefrom my handmore like than likemore real than real |
09-04-2012
Word count: 61
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Colour and form
This picture has arrived, after some time. Now complete it colour development has been quite slow.
The video below tracks the colour changes which show the increase of complexity and ... |
14-02-2012
Word count: 179
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 | Some time ago I made a wooden piece called Torso, inspired by some earlier drawings that persisted in my thinking. Encouraged by a gouache study of the figures I ventured on an oil painting around 1.2M h... |
28-01-2012
Word count: 174
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 | Not surprisingly, the creative path for a pictures is often far from straight and on occasions ends abruptly without warning. Such was the case for the badly conceived and badly named 'Tranquility' which... |
28-01-2012
Word count: 153
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 | How to paint is a great mystery.
How rough can it be? There is a beautiful rough, a sort of lightness that is very pleasing. Looking back to earlier blogs that reference this piece, I see I spoke about ... |
26-01-2012
Word count: 139
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Evening
That's it, this picture has engaged me for quite a while. I have taken it to a point where I can bear it - its power and subtlety are tuned as far as I can manage.
Like any offspring - I can ... |
21-01-2012
Word count: 103
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Yesterday afternoon I made this drawing of two figures. Its not unusual for me to draw such a thing and having read a lot of Roberto Calasso's book Tiepolo's Pink, to make a drawing that reflects late ... |
29-12-2011
Word count: 263
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Mary and Joseph come for Christmas
Last week I posted some thoughts on 'Direct Painting' that featured a couple on a yellow ground. Recently I took up this canvas again to make some adjustments ... |
12-12-2011
Word count: 212
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 | Couple on Yellow
Today (Saturday) I have worked on two paintings, this one in the afternoon. I like to clean the palette between pictures to keep the pictures fresh, old colour can influence me and tain... |
03-12-2011
Word count: 177
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 | This tall painting is, or almost, finished. These oil paintings seem to lurch forwards in unequal steps and then without warning, I see nothing more to do and I assume it is finished. The iconography in ... |
15-06-2011
Word count: 108
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