David Hockney's landscape painting Nichols Canyon made the news recently, it is valued at $35 million at auction. His painting began with a single squiggly line, around which he built up a quilt-work of varied textures and elements resembling the landscape. I looked at his painting for some time, it was remarkable that all of those secondary and tertiary colours worked together so well- a hodgepodge of purples, oranges, greens built around primaries and complementary colour combinations. It almost defies logic that it looked so good! For today's palette cleanser painting, I started with the squiggly line, and then build up a patchwork of organic shapes coloured with secondaries and tertiaries. I estimate the value of my painting to be at least $35 million at auction *.
9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, November 2020
* monopoly money
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