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…..something that may seem a bit different, though it may not. Some may remember I was given by a dog, well that is to say the dog dropped it by my feet probably expecting a game of fetch…..a flipper, such an interesting thing in itself. I kept it. It was all bones and skin, the bones still held together. This was last August and it’s just sort of been there in view as I am painting…..not really knowing what to do with it. Far to interesting to throw away. For a while it never even occurred to me to try and identify it, well a few weeks ago I did and it kind of hit home, another creature gone. The flipper belonged….is that that the right word, or perhaps part of would be better…..I have to be a bit careful here as I could easily get side tracked into a discourse on Fuzzy logic, re Bart Kosko….it’s an interesting read. Lets just say it is, to the best of my ability to identify it…. the flipper of a bottle nosed dolphin. What ever happened to the creature I will never know. But having that knowledge made me want to do….something with it. Commemorate it’s life or just to acknowledge something about this wonderful species. So I am going to, have in fact begun to…… include it into a painting.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Firstly the canvas has been stretched and primed. It is a 30×60 inch piece. the next thing was to embed the flipper into the canvas and I did this by first cutting into the canvas and using small strips of canvas to make a hollow area that the flipper could be placed in. I then made up a mixture of micro crystaline wax and genuine turpentine heated until thoroughly mixed and after placing the flipper into the hollow I then poured the liquid around then flipper…..<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In an excited sense…. for me that is… I understood from the outset of the idea that this is akin to fossilizing the flipper, it reminded me of the ghostly fossils Aaron and I found embedded in limestone on the shores of the dingle peninsula when we cycle toured Ireland in 2017. So then the painting has started today with staining the canvas…..It will go through many changes and excitedly I have to idea what those changes will be. I’ll be doing a blog about this on my website…..but here are the first two images……<\/div>\n
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A new piece begins<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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