Unfinished Thoughts and Work in Progress

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Reverse Painting/ Églomisé 3 panel screen.  Work in progress Winter 2016

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Sweater Pattern by Robin Breeding, inspired by Hiroshige’s Maple Trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine

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Chandelier Sketch

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Step one in the gilding process.

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Children’s Book Illustration.  Robin Breeding

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Scarf design, Breeding and Stroud, 2015.

A vivid modern geometric, patterned after the fashionable Taisho Art Deco fabrics of 1920s Japan.

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Dancer, muse, martyr, Isadora Duncan lost her life to a silk scarf, her fashion signature, caught up in the wheels of a speeding Bugatti on the French Riviera in 1927—a tragedy, explained Gertrude Stein, but “affectations can be dangerous.” The typeface is designer Adolphe Mouron Cassandre’s iconic Art-Deco 1929 Bifur. Textile design by Breeding and Stroud

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Building up the underlayers.  Nantucket mural in the style of Rufus Porter.

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Grisaille photo backdrop. Latex on cotton. Painted by Breeding and Stroud for antique-process collodion photography

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Working on the under-painting for a Nantucket mural, in the style of Rufus Porter, in oil. Rose Madder and Chrome Yellow on the horizon.

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Adding detail. Nantucket mural in the style of Rufus Porter.

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Inspiration for the Arts and Crafts dining room.

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Matador Chair in process.  Fabric by Breeding and Stroud

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Gesso on board samples.

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Gesso on board samples.

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Set Design for Almost Maine.  Theatre Workshop of Nantucket.