This paining was made when I lived in a basement apartment in London Ontario, the windows seen in the background are at the sidewalk level. Sometimes people walking by would look in, making me feel like I was on display like a gorilla at the zoo. On the sofa there is a monkey holding fish-baloons. The cabinate to the side actually had my fish tank on it, but I replaced it with a 'doodleism' cactus plant (from a lab book). The foreground has a bottle of dish soap decorated with another doodle on the label, and a phone beside, (waiting to be answered?). You can see the desk in the front, it is the old kitchen table from my family home, I still have it today and do all my indoor abstract work on it. Also notice the birds perched on a half-coconut hanging from the ceiling, this was a decoration I bought in Barbados.
My favorite part of the painting is the yellows in the bottle. There is a layer of pale yellow overlapped with a brighter yellow accented with green and a touch of purple. the yellow was aurelian yellow, and perhaps a bit of windsor yellow, a strong pigment that needs be used in small amounts. The shadows are the same yellow but with more green and purple. I like the balloons too, they were real, so was the monkey (ok, it was stuffed).
On Display (Dish Soap), 11 x 15" cold press, watercolour, 2000 (No 1767a)
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