Below are three images of the most recent work on the portrait of Heironymos Bosch -now four years in the making. The first is a shot of the entire painting, followed by a detail of the painter’s profile and the painter’s palette and colors. The images may be selected in order to view a larger format.
Bellow are some photographs of some very small amounts of pigments being ground with water, in preparation for being mixed at need with egg yolk to make egg tempera. Having a ready supply of fresh hen’s eggs, it is the logical paint to start making, as well as learning slightly parallel to the western historical progression of the technology of paint-making.
Grinding vine black with water, using a glass muller and “slab”.
Collecting a small batch of yellow earth from the muller.
Four jars of pigment, ground with and then submerged in water.
