Every so often I complete a painting after some time passes. The top and bottom of this painting were done with bloodstone genuine, a granulating red/black pigment made from iron oxide. I used that for the background of my blog this summer, which can be seen on the desktop version of the blog. Today, I was moving some paint around my big palette, and needed to clean off the phthalo blue, so I used it to fill in the center of this design. I tried to make the blue look like it was integrated with the textured black portions.
Bloodstone Genine and Phthalo Blue, 4 x 10" cold press watercolour, December 2020
Here is a depiction of my December palette that I have been using for outdoor and indoor paintings. It follows the rainbow mostly. The hue angles go from yellow-green on the top left, across to red-magenta top right, then around to blue violet and into the greens going clockwise. Black has its own little spot off to the side because it really messes up the mixing areas. The changes from my summer palette was I took off one of the yellows since I don't need to paint much grass or foliage, and I added back phthalo green blue shade and rose-magenta because they make great blue-grey mixes for winter. Just today, I set up my other, bigger palette (it hold 28 colours compared to the 18+1 in this palette) so I can get to use all the paints I am lucky to have.
Depiction of Palette, December 2020
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