Drawings

Crushed By Egg Tempera

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Saint Thomas is now on the easel to receive a grisaille underpainting in oils.   After being crushed by my attempt to make an egg-tempera grisaille underpainting on this panel of Thomas and Jesus, et al.,  I have decided to move my historical experimentations to a panel of more manageable dimensions.  Moses in the Rock is the only picture I have made using egg tempera as an underpainting and it is quite small.  This represents the largest panel I have ever undertaken with the most fully developed charters as well.  Egg tempera is very slow (and I already work very slowly), and having already allowed a 5 year window to make this picture,  I shall try to fully embrace those other challenges in a noble fashion in addition to honoring my time.

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Mixing the medium for the thinning of colors for underpainting.

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Applying a coat of thinned shellac over the absorbent gesso and egg tempera.

Please take a moment to visit my friend Mike Schultz interesting post on his blog the other day.

Introduction to the School of the Transfer of Energy

Early Fronts-piece design for The School of the Transfer of Energy, featuring a drawing of a goatsucker.

Cover for the first handbook of The School of the Transfer of Energy.

Below is a revised and very pared down introduction to what the School of the Transfer of Energy represents:

The School of the Transfer of Energy

The Institute of Signs and Levers

The School of the Transfer of Energy was established as a tool to bring a simple order and understanding to a broad range of arts, crafts and agriculture based disciplines and the outputs of those disciplines. The Institute of Signs and Levers refers to a view of those disciplines as a deliberate and purposeful technology towards the receiving, cultivation and realization of relationship to God the Father, Son and Spirit.