A Suspension of Disbelief

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…he had of me
All he could have; I made him just and right,
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
John Milton: Paradise Lost. 

Milton’s God reacts to Man’s foreseeable fall by his plan of grace, …. Milton’s idea of grace is not “irresistible,” but “conditional” upon Man’s choice to accept or refuse it. For Milton, Man does not have the “will” to save himself, but can choose to be “saved” by a will that can save him.

From “Free will and necessity in Milton’s Paradise Lost”.
http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/gib_fw.html

Acrylic media, pva, found materials, crayon

Stages of progress below;

From the original snap through cropping,

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digital manipulation printing as a montage 71cm sq

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adding found material.

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and painting

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developing composition

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developing composition

glazing with heavy acrylic medium

Acrylic media, pva, found materials, crayon

Catching a Wave

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Last in a series of 8 seascapes in progress. First sketching in with some detail started in places. I am really enjoying this one. Need to send this and stop surfing so I can go back to catching the wave. 🙂

Inky Depths

A 40″ Sq Painting of the North Sea

 

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Complete 23 04 2011

It has to stop somewhere, chasing detail is not always necessary.

And looking back In stages

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22 04 2011

And suddenly it was there. Not much further to go now. More detail in the surf foreground. Picking the land out on the R Horizon. Some glazing to balance the light. 

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21 04 2011

Blocked in with some areas in first level of detail. Some glazing started.

 

 

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20 04 2011

A Newly Started piece barely marked out as yet.

Engineer

A painting / portrait of my father from about 1997

He was a retired lecturer in engineering hence the engine bits and the orthoographic projection.

Acrylic on MDF varnishied. approx A2 i dimension

 

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