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Three more studio photos

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Another composition with the glass eye and table-tennis balls

 Zantedeschia aethiopica mirabilis .

Grows spontaneously in some dark places (such as the consciences of mass murderers, genocide perpetrators, tyrants, dictators…). It is an invasive species.

Bonjour Mr René M

The unexpected find of a bowler hat in flea-market. The hat was in a very good condition and was sent to the factory to be cleaned and to have the lining replaced. A small size hat ,nevertheless a good subject for a photo. I still have to try some different backgrounds – and a body with a better structure.

Yggdrasil

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Yggdrasil is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds.  Yggdrasil  is central to the cosmos and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their traditional governing assemblies. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations. This information was provided by Wikipedia, and there are other versions of a giant World’s Tree  (Orbis Terrarum Arbore) in several cosmogonies . Imagining the world as a tree is a nice idea – I made a less solemn and more trivial version of the Yggdrasil, oil on canvas 60 X 100 cm

Two more smaller paintings (40 X 40, oil on plywood.) “Chess” and “Jongleur”

Etching and some drawings

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Another work in etching. A copper plate covered with a special varnish. A drawing is made on that varnish layer (in this case an imaginary portrait of the poet Fernando Pessoa holding a smartphone). The etched plate is bathed in acid – it burns the copper plate where the varnish was etched. The whole layer of varnish is removed by a solvent and the etched copper plate is inked. Excess ink is removed and a print is made.  A sample of the etched copper plate  and the resulting final print.

Drawing session last Monday

Some fast sketches of live models, brown chalk on paper

Two new paintings

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I have just finished two oil paintings. Two examples of too much imagination  – deserving a much better painting technique…

”The Acrobats” (oil on canvas) with three ascending figures coming from nowhere and pushing themselves upwards.

 And “Thaurokathapsia” (oil on plywood), a modern imaginary version of a lost Minoic art.

The Acrobats

Taurokathapsia

Conchology

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Conchology, or shell collecting, is the practice of  finding and usually identifying the shells of mollusks, a popular avocation, or hobby, in many parts of the world. https://www.britannica.com/topic/shell-collecting

I am not a collector of shells, but I admire their colours, shapes, textures and glaze. They are perfect subjects for still life images. Here are some photos of shells – far from being as beautiful as the originals.