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The third evening working on this painting, and this is what it looks like.
It will in fact be done by tomorrow, leaving 2 days to dry. It's a curious substrate to work on. It's a light raw cotton that was heavily laquered. The laquer seals the fibers, but the paint still goes through the surface. The laquer also stifens the fibres and makes them abrasive so it's pretty hard on brushes.

The cotton originaly part of some older pieces, from a YYZ show.

At the bottom of this post is the painting I am copying - Which itself turns out to be a copy - (and not a terribly good one at that), of a Willian Beechey, painted in 1800. Mine of course is by far the least well executed painting.

Whole lot-o-George

A couple of stages along the way... King George III, whom I am painting as a piece for the King's War of 1812 Re-enacting group I belong too, for the annual King's Regimental Mess dinner.

It seems that at one of the real 8th Regiment's dinners while they were stationed in Quebec during the War of 1812, they had a lavish display set up for their guests, complete with a life size transparency of the King, lit from behind by candals... It's entirely possible that theirs was, like this, a copy of Beechey's 1800 portrait of George III. It was copied a number of times. Presumably as an official portrait. I Know if I was king, I sure as heck wouldn't want to be sitting for a new portrait every time they opened a nwe government office, so I get one good one done up and hire a competant but less expensive portraitist to churn out copies. Not that HRH George III did that, but I've come across several versions of this painting by lesser masters than Sir Beechey. In each the King is in s different setting.

I have until the 11th to finish this. I'll post a photo of it after I'm done, and when it is set up at the mess.

I think it may look rather wreched if it is only lit from behind, because it is hard to judge the transparency of the paint. We shall see.

It's good practice.

In the Box

I came across the original gallery photos of these recently. This was a part of my graduate exhibition when I was at OCA. 9 6' x 6' panels. The construction of these pieces consisted of oak frames with lacquered cotton stretched on both sides and plywood cut-outs of a camera, a lamp, a table, a chair and a window with the cotton on one side being painted red, yellow or blue. the pieces onontripods were plywood, plexiglass and fifties Arbourite (Formica)on tripods were plywood, plexiglass and fifties Arbourite (Formica)

I milled the oak for the frames down from 2 X 10 rough cut planks. It was quite the project. The legs on the tripods below were walnut and oak. I loved working with the walnut.

Any How

well, It has been a while since my last post.

two months to the day in fact. In that time, we have bought a new house, gotten our own house ready to sell and put it on the market.

Any how - this blogs about - What?

The Second Fabriano Book is Finished

Book #2 is now full. Here are some drawings from that book which I hadn't posted before. (Ach, This layout is irritating.)

Coloured pencil. I went over this with a clear wax and polished the surface. and while it did enhance the colours, it also caused the wax in to coloured pencils to sort of "pill" and become muddier.






Coloured pencil.
They eventually fixed this flag by cutting off the torn panel.








Water soluble coloured pencil and water based markers (flouresent highlighter pens)








Pencil, pen, highlighting marker, white, yellow and blue Stabilo pencil.





Pencil, pen, highlighting marker









Pen, water soluble markers and black Sharpie.







Pencil, sepia brush pen, highlighting markers.









Gravity strings. pencil, coloured pencil, water soluble marker, pen

Eventually...

Eventually, these wi'll appear in a more proper form on my portfolio site before too long.

I'm sort of pleased with these two.

Mostly what I do with these images on line is demonstrate how un-critical I am on my own photography.

Leaves and "Acutal Size"

The paintings of my sons

stage #1

sans titre

More items in progress

I was in my little painting nook with the camera last night. These are the paintings I've got on the go. The light wasn't the best. The images looked better on my laptop than they to on the this one (Our other PC). Almost all of these are incomplete. I'll post progress pictures from time to time.

(fixed the colours somewhat.)


Gareth, early days in War of 1812 reenacting.

Needs about another 4 hours work.









Glenn Beauchamps working on the Lancaster, bracing the fuselage.
This and the next two are part of what may end up as a series of people working.










Hands of a graphics installer applying a vinyl wrap.










Man with hoist. (Lancaster work)










What it looks like












box in the livingroom ceiling.













Used turps Jar.
done, I think

next

I'm staring two new paintings tomorrow.

Portraits of my sons. This will be interesting, because - well, because I don't have a client to please, while at the same time being very unsure about even being able to do a creditable job.

Thumbing through the "not quite done yet" file

This blog seems to more about becoming something than being anything.
I'd rather post works in progress than finished items.

So here are some more, near completion or at the point where I stop to ask "is it done?".










Pipe Wrench. This may be done. I like it raw like this.










Grey Data Cable. Needs some refinement.













an Actual Size item. well OK, this is 90% done. Or 99%.










Dash Skating. I was going to work up the details quite abit more, but I like this one the way it is.

Just About Done -

.. But painting children is damn difficult. Just like they've always said.

It is a very long time since I painted at all, and quite frankly, I have only painted two other portraits before,and they were when I was a teenager in highschool. this was a practice piece to warm up for the other two.

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