After doing the sub-zero painting outside yesterday, my palette was a serious mess. Salt and water had gooped up many of the colours so I cleaned the palette off using a brush and used the extra paint in these small abstracts. Essentially it was a palette cleanser on a much smaller format. The syrupy consistency of the paint made for some intense colours especially the indo blue (PB60) seen in the sky and burnt sienna (PR101) seen in the field. Quin magenta and violet (PV19, PV55), phthalo blue, perylene green, and a touch of iso yellow (PY110) finished the painting.
Egg and Chicken Dust Storm, 4 x 8" watercolour paper, watercolour, December 2020
This one has a similar story, but I used bismuth yellow, a very opaque paint, to overlay the shrubberies. Perylene green was used for their shadows. These paper cuttings were leftover from a home-made framing I did for some Japanese postcards. I also received another print today from Mokuhankan, the 12th and final one in their woodblock print series called Japan Journey.
Bismuth Trees Dust Storm, 1 x 7" watercolour paper, watercolour, December 2020
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