Waning Moon, fresco secco panel Buy the original at Saatchi online gallery plaster and ink This is about 11 x 14″. I set out to paint the full moon and instead, with our year 2012 coming to a close, found myself painting a waning moon (also known as a...
A detail of my fresco painting of coastal a cliff, Sonoma County CA– in progress. Natural pigments on a fresco secco panel made of burlap and plaster. The striations of color and patterns of erosion, horizontal planes turned to vertical: to a geologist these...
looking down at the ocean from a cliff, Sonoma County CA fresco secco panel This is a detail of a larger fresco secco panel. The colors are natural earth and mineral pigments, white is the plaster underneath. Finished? Possibly. I joke that someone has to stop me,...
Big Sur, CA fresco secco: mineral pigments on plaster and roughspun burlap panel miniature (4″ x 5″)
natural pigments on panel, 16″ x 36″ Kerala mural tradition of fresco secco Ushas, or Dawn, shoots sunbeams from her lotus bow. She rides in a chariot with the sun and a herald (blowing on a conch shell). I chose to show them all high up in the sky above...
Working on a new fresco panel, I thought of posting snapshots of the work as it progresses. Yesterday I transferred a drawing of “Sita”, a seated female figure, onto a small panel with a smooth calcium carbonate ground. I outlined it in ochre and red...
