I made this painting early today, it is an abstract from my imagination. The outlines were done first, and then filled in with various colours that seemed to harmonize. The minty green and mustard in the background go well with the reds and browns of the foreground elements. It reminds me of an old computer game called asteroids, where you had to shoot them and fly around them in space. Doing a black background would have been nice but this paper is very thin so it wont hold heavy washes.
After work, I entered more paintings into the catalogue. The catalogue is a spreadsheet that contains a code number, name, and year for each painting which I also write in the margins or on the back of the painting. It also has size, paper, subject matter source, owner, comment on date, and additional notes.
I am starting with my oldest portfolio, it contains drawing and paintings mostly from 1980's until about 1995, along with a few more recent ones. I constantly shuffled things around my portfolios over the years. One on the list is Birdman which I sold in 2000, I gave it a code number too. Naming some of the old paintings has been fun.
9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, September 2020
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