painting
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Waterhouse’s Women
Canvas has teeth to catch the smear of pigment that comes off a brush it has a fighting spirit that resists assault, that provides firm backing as long as its stretched tight and nailed to a frame like Christ to his cross. It takes some time to warm his hands up, to dip and…
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Carl Sagan Portrait
I enjoy portraiture, though often they end up being more caricatures than perfect likenesses. This is a multi-format painting done with Japanese ink, watercolor, color pencil, pastel, and acrylic paints. The subject is Carl Sagan in the middle of speaking to someone(s). Here is our pale blue dot the Earth and in the foreground, Mars.…
The Numinous Cosmos 