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Friday, August 14, 2020

Farm Cat Life

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  In the dog days of summer, the afternoons are very hot, but the mornings are really nice. So every morning this week I've set up the s...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Moving right along - size gilding and transfer leaf

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Yes, it's been almost a year. Deal. I thought I'd get back to writing about the process of learning iconography, Byzantine, Goth...
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Sunday, September 29, 2019

Practice

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Yesterday's practice. Subdividing Thursday's blocks of colour imprimatura and learning the trick of creating the secondary colour ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

More experiments

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It's funny how the old methods turn out to be better than the new Bright Ideas. Trying to be a bit more systematic, learning the rathe...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Having a go

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A couple of months ago I signed up for the Patreon page of Ikonographics , run by a woman, Julia Hayes, from South Africa - who lives in At...
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Monday, July 22, 2019

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth

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Who was Mary Magdalene? "Woman, why weepest thou?" From the 4th Lesson of the 2nd Nocturn of Matins: Mary of Bethany, s...
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Friday, June 28, 2019

Italian air conditioning

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20 inch thick stone walls, a big floor fan and shutters = coolth. So, the temps have finally become seasonal here, which is to say that...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The pursuit of holiness; how to train your brain

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What is procrastination anyway? Most of us assume it's a moral failing. This is probably a bit true, but it's certainly mixed with...
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Monday, June 17, 2019

Catch of the day

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It's the time of year when we pretty much get a lizard a day. Lizards are a specialty of my little silky black and white ninja, Berti...
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Saturday, June 08, 2019

Egg white and cauliflower pancakes

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Finally figured out what to do with the egg whites left over after making egg tempera medium. Take: whites of two eggs 2 cups finely ...
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