Generating colour wheels involves a careful circle of colours to understand the attributes of each pigment. Most artists' guides will tell you this, and to try mixing the paints together in little blobs. I do this from time to time, but in some cases the colour mixing test comes alive and becomes a painting on its own. For example, I was testing out the new paint I got from The Stoneground Paint Company called roman black (PBk11) a dark iron oxide warm black colour. Maybe the black lives matter movement and the social situations was filtering through my conscious, and the COVID-19 pandemic conflating into one abstract, tension filled design. At Concordia University where I work, they have some identified problems with 'non-inclusive' areas where the photos or monuments depict white christian demographics. This can make students and professors who are increasingly diverse feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. I brought this up with administration repeatedly and progress was interrupted by the lock-down. When I gather the strength again I will raise the issue again. The students also circulated a petition to this effect, to remove non-inclusive racially or religiously themed displays form the institution. Concordia University, Loyola campus was originally (but no longer) a Jesuit college which makes a tangled web of issues to solve. If any University can evolve, I know it is Concordia University. Rarely do I talk politics in my blog, I have already said as much to administration and they responded in agreement, but action has to take place of good intentions if we want things to change.
7 x 10" cold press B side, watercolour, 2020
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