Mark Tiitinen | Traditional Arts

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Recent work (mid-2020 to present)

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MA of Traditional Arts, 2018-2020

First-year Coursework

Methods and materials

Cochineal

Azurite

Grinding rock

Casein (double, double, toil and trouble)

Egg tempera

Straining oak gall ink

Persian miniature painting

Genghis lookalike (detail)

Tree (detail)

Balcony (detail)

Gold soup

Simurgh vs. dragon

Scene from the Shahnama (Persian book of kings)

Letter gilding

Paint on gesso

Burnishing (for illustrative purposes)

Gilding

Tidy up

Plan a background (illustrative purposes only)

Polystavrion L

Woodwork

Veneer by numbers

Overnight clamp

Reverse side, before trimming

Parquetry tile

Veneer pixels

Polystavrion tile (before trimming to size)

Stained glass

Design

Text and designs on one side

Colours on the other side (after firing)

Finished, with lead rim.

Bravo

Diamond window

Ceramics

Two-tone encaustic tile making

Adding the second colour

Leave to set

Finished product

Ceramic glaze testing (opaque)

Glaze testing (translucent)

Light on dark

Dark on light

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Make a plaster mould

Freshly pressed tile

Tiles with glaze before firing

Kiln interior

Cosmati Pavement tile set

Cosmati Pavement tiles (detail)

Calligraphy (& heraldry- which was not part of the course)

15th c. humanistic script

'Love conquers all'

Crest of Salisbury

Crest of the Anglican diocese of Salisbury

Lettering practice

Iconography Open Programme

Outlines

Painted outlines

Clay bole

Gilding halo

Blocking in colours

Adding "mask" of highlights

Toning it down

Building up flesh tones

St. John the Forerunner

Field studies

St. Margaret of Antioch, Oxford

Canterbury

St. Martin's, Cantebury

River Wear, Durham

Bridge Chapel, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire

Canals, Cambridgeshire

Salisbury Cathedral views

Reinforcing inside Salisbury Cathedral spire (c.1266 - present)

Stonehenge

Second-year Project

Musical manuscripts

'Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death'

Ps. 22 close up

'Lazarus, come forth'

Apolytikion close up

'Come, receive ye light'

Close up

Geometric floor designs

Memory

Central roundel

Close up of mosaic patterns

Flux

Trompe-l'œil close up

Eschaton

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Eschaton close up

Antioch guilloche

Icon studies

St. John the Theologian

St. Mitrophan of Beijing

St. Moses the Ethiopian

'Live by the sword, die by the sword'

Archangel Gabriel

Archangel Gabriel, detail

Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael, detaio

St. Mary of Egypt

St. Mary of Egypt, detail

'Love to the end' - St. Maria of Paris

St. Maria of Paris, detail

Side projects

Calm before the storm

The Ark of Salvation

'Invisibly present here with us'

Skills and drills

Blowing out the cobwebs

New style, new medium

It's all about the flow.

Stylised garment folds

Billowing capes

Chasing shadows

Canonical proportions

More struggling with Byzantine faces.

The eyes have it

Side projects and field studies

Calm before the storm

'Invisibly present here with us'

Western Australian sandstone

A year's worth of pigments, just lying around

First draft colour chart

Acacia pycnantha (Golden Wattle)

Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Red river gum

Tree change

Backyard Eucalyptus

Bowl hidden inside a branch

The sculptor's arsenal

The Ark of Salvation