painting
June 30, 2018
Work Working again has spurred my creativity at the same time as removing the time I have to spend doing it. That is so annoying. Work […]
December 3, 2016
A while ago I did a series of posts on painting with egg tempera. I’d finished the first one – this portrait of Ada Lovelace holding […]
July 3, 2015
So I pulled my finger out and finished off this painting, my first attempt at teaching myself Egg Tempera. It is Ada Lovelace, who did a […]
May 23, 2015
This is such a learning curve. I spent the entirety of the movie Random Harvest doing this little bit. First I got my pigments ready. I […]
May 20, 2015
Egg tempera painting relies on there being a detailed under drawing in ink to paint over. So you transfer over from a cartoon (a preliminary drawing […]
April 19, 2015
I love art. I particularly love old art, from eras past. Italian renaissance frescoes and panel paintings, oh my! Before oil came along as a binder […]
April 19, 2015
So I’ve ended up with four nice shiny clean flat panels, ready to go. The thing about tempera is that you have to lay down exactly […]
March 25, 2015
I took some photos from the car window when I was out and about near the Grampians over the christmas break. There were wheat fields everywhere, […]
November 23, 2014
Well I’ve got nothing to post that’s new cause all my time is going into those dinosaur royalty things and I’m painting like a fiend […]