Xerxes' gold cup

An illuminated gold cup, part of the Megillat Esther Josh and I are producing. Watch the short slideshow (6 slides) of its production, at...

http://www.steveberer.com/work-in-progress/

Check out the next steps in the illuminated Megillat Esther that Josh and I are producing. Click the link below to see what page 3 will look like, approximately, as well as a photo of Josh, Maddy, and me.

http://www.steveberer.com/work-in-progress/

Megillat Esther: Vashti portrait

While Josh is producing pages of text, I'm working on the illuminations. Here's my most recently completed image, a portrait of Vashti, the king's courageous wife who will not be disgraced as a sex object by the crude and drunken king. 

To see the complete slideshow, presenting the portrait's development, please go to Filtered Lights. Here's the link:

http://www.steveberer.com/work-in-progress/

Here's one of the images, showing the initial gold work:

On Filtered Lights - the first rhyton

Filtered Lights: a new post -- Megillat Esther, the first rhyton.
Six images showing the progress of my illumination work on an image. Here's the link:

http://www.steveberer.com/work-in-progress/

and here's one of the images:

At Filtered Lights, a new post... 

'Nature Studies'.

Some photos of local wetlands, and enhancements of them. You can find this and more at:

http://www.steveberer.com/work-in-progress/

A preview:

New on Filtered Lights, my new blog...
Work on an illuminated Megillat Esther. You can read a brief description and see some images here:
http://www.steveberer.com/work-in-progress/

Here's a little preview...

Visions and Revisions of Florence

Nancy was invited to present some research at the Kunsthistorische Institute in Florence earlier this summer. It's a pretty enough town but I'm not a big fan of tourist havens. Summertime in Florence? Outa control. Still...

2 views of the Duomo:

Tile in the Baptistry:

Candy, eye candy:

2 views of a garden:

A bike:

My obsession with masonry persists:

The San Niccolo hills:

Thru a portal:

2 views inside a shop:

She's the one!

And this from a short trip to Sienna...

The Madeleine Amulet: Producing the Amulet

This brief video shows the process of designing, drawing, calligraphing, painting, and illuminating an amulet for my sweet little kabuchki Madeleine.

Brick entranceway

I'm closing in on finishing my next video, showing the production of the Madeleine Amulet. In the meantime, I work a couple of hours each day on the chain gang, breaking bricks. Here are 4 images of the progress.

Progress, as of day 19:

Now the fun part, designing the central area. Here's what I've got so far:

Now just imagine if the black granite were lapis lazuli...

Back to reality. Fortunately, there are no kids in the neighborhood, or I might have inspired them with some new, creative uses of language.

Designing the Madeleine Amulet

This 2 minute video shows the design stages in the production of an illuminated amulet, The Madeleine Amulet. It also describes the conceptual foundations of the images I developed for the amulet.

At Museum Hill, Santa Fe

Heck, I forgot this one yesterdee, but it's too good to pass...

Golden G

Aen davvarreem...

The Madeleine Amulet, complete

Having just completed the Madeleine Amulet/Shiviti, I am creating a full video of its creation, from conception to birth, but in the meantime, here's a sneak peak, a 15 second video spiraling around the completed shiviti.
For those who do not know the term "shiviti" (which I spell shivvetee), it is a Hebrew word meaning "I have set" or "I have placed". Line 8 of Psalm 16 states, "Shivvetee Uddoniy l'negdee tammeed": "I have set God before me always." And thus the word got transferred to the object, in reverence of the Divine.

Madeleine Amulet, nearing completion

Progress has been slow on this amulet for my granddaughter Maddy. No excuses. I'm the problem. Anyway, the gold is now done, except for some judicious cleaning, especially around Adonai, altho I will leave some errant fragments as little stars in the sky. Here are 4 images. Enjoy!

Venus, Ishtar, Inanna,2

The Innonna image featured in my previous post is now nearly completed. Here are a few images, focusing in on details...

The complete image:

Focusing in on her corona:

Focusing in on her genetically woven garments:

Venus, Ishtar, Inanna

I am working on my next, and probably the last image for my upcoming ebook, The Song ov Elmallahz Kumming, Bouk 3. Here it is emerging from the unconscious...

Venus/Innonna (Inanna), walking around her home, the Louvre:

I conjure you, Innonna, to come alive...

The image is not complete, altho the portraiture is done. Now the energy waves must be revealed.

Photo Technical Studies

Here is a collection of cellphone photos and some technical transformations of them, trying to enhance their inherent mood. The photos were taken on Captiva and Sanibel Islands.
Your comments are always welcome and valued.

Boat and clouds 1

Boat and clouds 2

Ibis

Sunset, palms