Here is another hot painting I did yesterday as I was redoing one of my palettes. I moved around a bunch of colours including reds, oranges, and yellows and used the leftovers to make this painting. It is based from my memory of a painting I did for Mom and Dad years ago from a photo of their boat just after a minor flood. There are supposed to be puddles in the foreground, and a sail boat in silhouette with a sunset. This year I have been exploring different paints and having some fun with new styles and colours. Its always the pleasure of an amateur to buy art supplies and test them out, although to a professional I'd imagine that buying supplies is just a boring business expense. So far I have some discovered some real favorites such as isoindo yellow, a warm orangish yellow like traffic paint, phthalo blue red shade which is a sapphire blue great for mixing, and raw umber a dark chocolate brown. Lot of other are great and I will continue to use them. Others like potters pink (PR233) and magenta (PR122) were good for a few paintings but I wouldn't use them again. I also removed both alizarin crimson (January), and ultramarine (July) which were two of my most used paints. So far its not too much trouble, quinacridone red and perylene red make good replacements for alizarin, while phthalo blue red shade replaces ultramarine well enough.
9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, July 2020
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