Lipstick comes in shades of red, pink, magenta, fucsia, and many others. Fun fact, the pigment they use in lipstick can be the same pigment they use to make watercolour paints which explains why there are about 10 different options for shades of rose red! This painting is made from a mixture of permanent magenta and purple magenta (PV19+PR122) on the top and middle, and a lot of quinacridone red that I added while wet, it appears mostly at the bottom (PR209). Top and bottom are all relative, I actually painted this one the other way around and let gravity pull the quinacridone red through the magenta mix. I liked the look of it this way because the red bleeds look like trees on fire or rock formations.
The original title I had in mind was French Lipstick because some of the paints I used were from France, but the purple magenta was from Germany. European lipstick? Rogue Rouge was just a play in the french word for red (rouge) and rogue which means lawless, out of control. Doing a painting like this is tricky because you are not painting so much as tilting and mopping up the mess, my painting tablecloth is dotted with little pink marks. This was one of the endless colour paintings done on the hottest day of the summer.
22 x 30" cold press, watercolour July 2020 (B side of Floating Cathedral Statues)
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