Yet another palette cleanser. I'll admit it, I really enjoy making these paintings because all day I live in a structured world and the paintings have no rules. Just keep the paint on the paper! Even that rule I break a lot. This painting explored magenta in its various forms. If you look up magenta you will see a cool pink, practically violet, like the pink panther. There are no paints that are actually magenta, even though many paints have magenta in their names. In this painting I used quinacridones including violet and rose versions. My quinacridone violet (PV19) is identical to the old quinacridone magenta (PV19) I had before. Confused? So is everyone! The short story is that quinacridones are used in lipstick, so the paints are just various shades of red and pink lipstick. I matched them with earth browns and oranges here, it was quite a pleasing array of shapes and colours.
Palette Cleanser #43, 9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, November 2020
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