The idea here was festive, like Christmas and birthday wrapped up into one day. Like Cilei! I was also cleaning my palette off after the four location paintings I completed this weekend. Certain colours are working well in the cold weather such as burnt sienna, indo blue, carbon black, and benzi yellow. Other colours are not working well in the cold like the umbers. It may have to do with the formulation of the paint, and the fact that paint companies probably dont test their paints in sub-zero temperatures!
In the the painting, I used dilute carbon black to make the tentacle, which was later decorated with bismuth yellow and quin magenta. Then I added in the baloons starting with the blues, greens, then reds. The deep red is perylene maroon with quinacridone pink- it looks just like alizarin crimson one of my favorite paints that I abandoned this year due its poor lightfastness (fades in light).
Palette Cleanser #46, 9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, December 2020
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