Category: Paintings: mineral pigments in egg tempera
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Egg Tempera Paintings for Sale
As the moon wanes, I’m selling the last copies of the Ironwing Tarot Major Arcana (two copies left as of this morning), and putting several egg tempera paintings up for sale on my website HERE. None of them are new (I haven’t done any painting in nearly two years, due to other drawing projects, more…
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How to Draw Fire
The title phrase has shown up in my blog stats every day for about a year. What does fire look like? Regardless of the art medium or style that you are using, you need to be familiar with what fire looks like and how it behaves. Here’s the photo gallery at wildlandfire.com, the ultimate online…
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Moon Turtle Mandalas
The circular turtle shell is a motif that I have used in several drawings, the most detailed of which is the scratchboard Tsunami Turtle. The first time I used it, I painted the Dark Moon Tortoise Mandala in forest fire charcoal, charred bone, and silver metallic powders. It’s been holding a collection of white chalcedony “moon pebbles”, though now I’m drilling…
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Ice Lamp Moon
Today’s New Moon is the Ice Lamp Moon in my personal moon calendar. I named it when I was 13, in reference to the Winter Orchid or Puttyroot (Aplectrum hyemale) that grew in the woods near my house. The plant has a single leaf that sprouts in September and persists through the winter, dying back…
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Skystone Mineral Pigment
This is a new mineral pigment for my collection – a tiny piece of greenish-blue copper ore from a local abandoned mine. It contains malachite, chrysocolla, and probably a bit of turquoise. I already have several examples of all these pigments in my collection, but this piece was particularly bright and clean, so the paint…
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Full Moon: Mother of…well, a hundred
Above is an egg tempera sketch of a 3″ offset (or “pup”) from the agave plant in my front yard. I nicknamed her “Mother of Thousands” but she actually has about a hundred offsets – which is still amazing since this small variety of Agave palmeri usually has no more than a dozen. The primary leaf rosette was killed by…
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Walking Close to Home
Here’s a view from my daily morning walk, a 4.5-mile loop along a dirt road and a rocky, sandy wash. This area is especially rich in dense forests of very tall ocotillos, which are the intensely green sticks in the photo. For the last two nights, the moon has been spectacular – a glowing copper…
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The Full Moon Shatters into Rain
This full moon brought rain and green leaves. A glass sphere, its surface frosted and etched by windblown dust, shattered into glistening streaks and bubbles as it poured waterfalls and tendrils of green light. Amid thunderclouds, the rising and setting moon shone with a clear warm glow, like the swirling, molten sphere that forms as silver…
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