Underpainting for Moses in the Cleft of Rock
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.
Four 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.
Cutting Jacob and the Angel into a Block
The image of Jacob wrestling the Angel of the Lord being cut into a block of linoleum for a new print.
Making New Scratch Stock Cutter
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.
Moses in the Cleft of Rock
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.
Moses Anointing Aaron Update
Here is some recent progress on the painting of Moses anointing Aaron. A detail of Aaron followed by the whole picture.
Milling Ash With a New Set-up
A carpenter ant infested green ash crotch being milled using a piece of heavy aluminum C-channel on sawhorses as a guide for the first cut. Also the standard 20 inch bar on the Stihl 039 has been replaced with a 24 inch bar and a rip-cut milled chain. The extra four inches and a new bar make a big difference in getting good true and flat cuts.
It would have been better had it not been filled with a colony of carpenter ants, but still nice wood.
A little better towards the edge, just not as interesting.
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