Experimenting with some of the weird paints I have in my collection resulted in this small abstract inspired by the Quebec curfew! The idea was graffiti on a wall, or coloured chalk on a board. To create the shiny grey background (which actually sparkles in real life), I used a mix of neutral tint and mica with titanium white. It sounds fancy but this is essentially car paint! They use a lot of titanium white in car paint, and the mica provides the sparkle you see when looking at a car in the sunlight. Most artists pigments come from the paint or cosmetic industry. The other objects contain synthetics, but I also used lapis lazuli (blue), porphyry (green) and ochre (yellow) which are more or less natural pigments.
5 x 7.5" cold press, watercolour, January 2021 (No. 2532b)
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