#photography
RSS- Tales from A Brightonian Death
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/tales-from-a-brightonian-death
A very short blog post today just to share a couple of pics from A Brightonian Death, the Brighton Fringe event where one of my Death Mask photographs was used: projected on the screen behind the stage,…
- Blindfolded Seeress - first prints printed
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/blindfolded-seeress-first-prints
Well, it’s come a long way from the first scribbled sketches I posted on this blog in January – the first 13ʺ × 10ʺ fine art giclée print is now up for sale in the online shop. I’ve never…
- Blue Eiffel
https://justatheory.com/2008/12/blue-eiffel-tower
I finally got around to posting my photos of the Blue Eiffel Tower on Flickr. The Tower is lit in blue in celebration of the French Presidency of the EU, and will remain blue for another six months or so, from what I understand. Naturally, it got my attention when we last visited Paris, so I spent about an hour and a half shoot it from the Champ de Mars and directly underneath it. It was really quite beautiful, and I especially enjoyed getting some of the details of the decorative Steel of the tower in blue.
- Life Model Rates 2018
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-model-rates-2018
As the new year approaches I decided it was time to review the rates I pay life models again. I try to review these rates on a regular basis because It’s the right thing to do, Life models are hard-working…
- The Moss Figure
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/moss-figure
The “Moss Figure” is an image that’s been haunting my mind since I was a child. The original inspiration was a reproduction of a Cibachrome print by Veruschka Forest-piece at Schnaitsee, Performance…
- Planning for Saints & Martyrs
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/planning-for-saints-and-martyrs
I’m currently planning an Acid Renaissance photographic piece — working title: Saints & Martyrs — which is heavily inspired by the “catacomb saints” so wonderfully recorded by Paul Koudounaris…
- A Shot of Joy – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/a-shot-of-joy
- The Dream Eaters dance beneath the Crescent Moon
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-8
Being the latest of a (now traditionally unpunctual) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Dream Eaters I mentioned the Dream Eaters in my last update, but I’m mentioning…
- Life drawing and some photography
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-and-some-photography
On Monday I took the day off from my day job to get some artwork done. The first half of the session was spent doing three 40-minute life drawings, working in compressed charcoal on large (565mm ×…
- Harlem Hawk
https://justatheory.com/2020/09/harlem-hawk
An encounter with a hawk and a squirrel in St. Nicholas Park, Harlem.
- Lamia: my first new artwork made in Hastings
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/lamia
Two weekends ago my studio in my flat here in Hastings got its first proper use: a session of life-drawing (drawings below) followed by the Lamia photoshoot (prints of which are available here). Although…
- Preparing for a Photoshoot
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/preparing-for-a-photoshoot
15 metres of cream muslin, washed, scrunched up, and dried; 1 hand-made oak-leaf mask; 2 replica Viking knives. Yes, I think I have everything ready for the photographs next weekend……
- Diggers, Moss, and Bacon: a round-up for February
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/diggers-moss-and-bacon
My creativity and inspiration have been very limited of late. Sometimes this just happens, and at other times there’s a definite correlation with what’s going on in the world. In this particular case…
- Shadows of the Hinterlandscape
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/shadows-of-the-hinterlandscape
Selling artwork is always difficult, especially in the UK for some reason. People are reluctant to buy artwork - maybe they think it’s expensive or that you need to be an expert in the “art world”…
- Artwork from the previous month
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artwork-from-july-2023
July was starting to look very sparse of any artwork until, I’m happy to report, the final weekend. On the final Friday of the month I took some test photos for a half-formed idea for a future photographic…
- Scarcity/Support – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/scarcity-support
- Drawing and various other plans for 2014
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/drawing-and-various-other-plans-for-2014
I’m really getting back into drawing after concentrating on printmaking & photography. I’m certainly not going to stop doing printmaking & photography, but I’ve decided that 2014 will include a…
- Masks and Photography, Ritual and Film
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/masks-photography-ritual-film
Over on Twitter yesterday I posted a series of tweets that, merged together, went something like this: What I need is Brighton people who will dress up in masks like those in the photo [above] and…
- Acid Renaissance: October 2020 update
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-october-2020-update
I suddenly realised I haven’t updated this for a few months, and while I haven’t been especially prolific I have actually completed some more Acid Renaissance artwork, so… Sketch for “The Lotus…
- Acid Renaissance, Act II
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-act-ii
I’ve been thinking lately about woods and meadows and the edges of lakes, places of importance in my own personal mythology that feed into my artwork. So far in my Acid Renaissance series these places…
- The Duellist
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-duellist
The Duellist — of which I’ve published two versions: The Duellist (1) and The Duellist (2) — has been hanging around the inside of my head for a few months now, maybe longer. As I was planning…
- The Children of Winter
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-children-of-winter
It seems appropriate, announcing that The Children of Winter is the first piece of artwork in my new Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced series, that I am coming down with a bad cold. In…
- The Marsh Spirit
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-marsh-spirit
Most of the time I have at least some idea who the characters that I photograph are. Not so in this case - I came up with the title of The Marsh Spirit after the event. There are early sketches of this…
- New Photos of Tisiphone
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/new-photosof-tisiphone
Earlier today I took more photographs of Tisiphone, the first of the three Furies — many thanks to Dawn for modelling again. I’ve got a couple of the photographs up in the artwork section already,…
- Photographs from Stanmer Great Wood
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/photographs-from-stanmer-great-wood
So we decided to go for a walk on Christmas Eve in Stanmer Great Wood, on the outskirts of Brighton, partly for exercise and some fresh air, and partly so that I could take some photographs of the woodland…
- Acid Renaissance lockdown
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-lockdown
My plan for December 2019 and the first three months of 2020 was to take Acid Renaissance into new territory. It would be brighter and more hopeful, and start to signal some potential radical futures.…
- A Haunting of Roses
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/a-haunting-of-roses
A Haunting of Roses first appeared as a scribbled note in my notebooks sometime in early 2018. So the idea of a pale figure covered with dying roses and cobwebs has been a phantasmagorical apparition…
- Photographs taken from the edge of the wood at midnight
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-edge-of-the-wood-at-midnight
Photographs taken from the edge of the wood at midnight is the title I finally decided on for my set of 4 photographs (taken at various shoots between 2013 and 2015). Like many things, it came to me as…
- The Blindfolded Seeress - First Images
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/blindfolded-seeress-first-images
About 3 weeks ago I posted some rough sketches and notes on this blog for a new project called “The Blindfolded Seeress”. I’m happy to say that the first stage of the project is complete, and you…
- Acid Renaissance updates and work-in-progress
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-5
As per last week’s post, this post is a series of minor updates - a format I’m experimenting with, more like a newsletter with various bits and pieces. This week’s artwork I spent yesterday on…
- My artwork in 2015
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/my-artwork-in-2015
I wanted to do a quick review of the artwork I’ve produced this year, not just to show it all to you, but also for my own benefit: as an artist sometimes you forget how much work you’ve actually done…
- Spirit of the Orchard
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/our-lady-of-the-orchard
Although I only posted this photograph on my site and social media yesterday, it was actually taken at a photoshoot back in the autumn of 2020, in the window between the first and second Covid lockdowns…
- A View (2) – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/a-view-2
- Saints & Martyrs
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/saints-and-martyrs
This image has been a long time coming. Update March 16, 2024: giclée prints of Saints & Martyrs are now available in my online shop. I wrote on here over six months ago about some of the early…
- The Keeper of the Archives, Dream Eaters, and Dryads
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-7
Being one of a (much overdue) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Keeper of the Archives In late June I took the photographs for The Keeper of the Archives. I had a great…
- Photoshoot of Megaera
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/photoshoot-of-megaera
Last weekend I took the photographs of Megaera, the second of the three Furies — many thanks to Alice for modelling (again!). I managed to shoot 668 photos — it’s simply amazing how differently…
- Musée du quai Branly
https://justatheory.com/2009/03/musee-du-quai-branly
- More Studies from the Court of Queen Mab
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/more-studies-from-the-court-of-queen-mab
The first three studies from the Court of Queen Mab were large-scale pastel drawings on black paper - there’s also an as-yet-unposted fourth large-scale pastel drawing depicting Queen Mab herself that…
- A Post about Life Models (update)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-models-update
As I approach my next art project I’ve just reviewed the amounts I pay people who model for my photography or drawing from the rates I discussed in this earlier post. I’ve decided to increase the…
- Making Myths
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/making-myths
Looking back on my photographic work since 2012 I’ve got to the point now where I feel I’ve amassed a good range of these pseudo-mythological characters. There are probably a couple more female characters…
- Acid Renaissance: update 1
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-1
As work steps up on my new series of artwork, Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced, it’s about time I provided an update on the ideas and thinking behind it. First of all, Acid Renaissance…
- The Artist’s Notebook
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/tagged
The Artist’s Notebook is Paul Watson’s studio journal containing notes on his ongoing artwork and related research, giving an insight into his creative process and artistic practice.
- Acid Renaissance Update 2
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-2
There is a great power in a deliberate temporal dissonance that stops you in your tracks and forces you to reassess. The TV series Britannia did it wonderfully, combining Celts and Romans with psychedelic…
- Battle Abbey and some week notes
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/battle-abbey-week-notes
I’ve got the week off work (I had some annual leave I needed to use or lose before April 30th) so I have time to log some week notes: Out & about On Sunday I visited Battle Abbey, which was built…
- A Post about Life Models
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-models
When I was an art student, and in the years shortly after finishing art school, I was lucky enough to have a number of friends who were happy to life model for me for free, just as well as I was living…
- January 2016 art update
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/january-2016-update
January is two-thirds gone, but things are coming together. I just received an email from my printers: the books of my artwork have been printed, and I just have to wait for them to bind them and deliver…