October 31, 2009 at 1:30 am
· Filed under Drawings, technique and process ·Tagged drawing, Jonah, Jonah and the Whale, Walking Man
In-progress graphite under-drawing on a poplar wood panel of Walking Man over a subterranean ocean with Jonah and the Sea-monster. This will be painted in oils.



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October 24, 2009 at 3:33 am
· Filed under Oil Paintings ·Tagged great horned owl, Heironymos Bosch, oil painting
Below is a photo of the frame for Heironymos Bosch Painting in His Studio. The frame is hard curly maple, cherry, and black walnut. I had troubles capturing a quality photo of the frame. Also pictured are a few new details: a great horned owl, bluebird, and some crows in the right-hand panel, and a plowman leading a pair of oxen on the left-hand panel.




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October 20, 2009 at 2:02 am
· Filed under wooden bowls, woodwork ·Tagged persimmon, wooden bowls
A small bowl turned from green persimmon wood back in september. It has distorted as it dried.

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October 10, 2009 at 8:22 pm
· Filed under Drawings ·Tagged drawing, Jonah, sea monster, Walking Man
Here is a new pencil drawing of Walking Man with an axe above a drawing of Jonah and the Appointed Sea Monster.

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September 22, 2009 at 12:10 am
· Filed under technique and process ·Tagged egg tempera, Moses in the Cleft, underpainting
Below are two stages of the under-painting for the Moses in the Cleft panel, done in egg tempera. Also included is a detail of some of the egg tempera paraphernalia.



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September 21, 2009 at 11:52 pm
· Filed under wooden bowls, woodwork ·Tagged Ash, bowl turning, cottonwood, elm, wooden bowls
Below are four bowls (from left) in elm, cottonwood, cottonwood, and ash.

The second cottonwood bowl taken from the crotch-wood.

The Ash bowl.

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September 10, 2009 at 10:07 pm
· Filed under prints, technique and process ·Tagged Jacob Wrestling Angel, Lino-cut, printmaking
The image of Jacob wrestling the Angel of the Lord being cut into a block of linoleum for a new print.


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September 10, 2009 at 9:57 pm
· Filed under technique and process, traditional woodcraft, woodwork ·Tagged bead molding, hand tools, scratch stock, tool making, traditional woodwork
In order to make a bead detail for some frame molding I could either buy a router bit or make a new cutter for my scratch stock (a traditional shop-made molding cutter or scraper). I believe that it is good to make your own tools when you can.
Below is the new cutter in the body of the scratch stock (similar to a marking guage), a piece of scrap walnut that has recieved the molding and an old triple flute cutter I made last winter.

The profile is marked on the blank before cutting. The blank is roughly cut from an old handsaw blade with a cold chisel then filed smooth.

The profile is then cut out with a dremel cut-off wheel…

then cleaned up with files.

The finished profile cutter in the scratch stock body and the resulting bead cut into the walnut.

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September 9, 2009 at 11:10 pm
· Filed under Drawings, technique and process ·Tagged drawing, Moses, Moses in the Cleft
Here is an update of the Moses in the Cleft of Rock panel. It is graphite on a gessoed poplar panel- in the process of becoming a painting. The underpainting will be in egg tempera, while the final painting will be oil.

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September 5, 2009 at 3:36 am
· Filed under technique and process, transfer of energy ·Tagged Annointing, Moses and Aaron, oil painting
Here is some recent progress on the painting of Moses anointing Aaron. A detail of Aaron followed by the whole picture.


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