Strange Jewels Found, Finally
It was over 20 years ago that I began a series of paintings on paper, inspired by Irish myth and the early medieval manuscripts of Ireland, the first of which w...
Category: Alchemy Notebook
For in That Book Is Your Soul
The first post I wrote when I restarted the Ninth Wave Designs blog nine years ago included this quote from Carl Gustav Jung: “I should advise you to put it all...
Of Sketchbooks and Runes
For Christmas my sister gave me a Hand*Book Journal Co. Travelogue sketchbook, and on New Year’s Day I decided to test the old superstition – that w...
Alchemy Notebook Artwork Now Available as Archival Prints
I have recently updated the Ninth Wave Designs Society6 art print store to include images taken from several pages from the Alchemy Notebook. Society6 offers ga...
The Alchemy Notebook Tormented
It has only just now come to my attention that original images from the Alchemy Notebook were used, without my knowledge or consent, as part of the Torment onli...
Alchemy Notebook: Serpent
This is the most recent image in the Alchemy Notebook Project, created in my Moleskine pocket sketchbook. I used liquid acrylic inks, Prismacolor watercolor pe...