Code Brown and Other Essentials

 

Recently I watched a clip from youtube called American Pickers, basically antiquing for cool junk. They came across a rare motocycle which was being sold for $55,000 and the narrator said he experienced a code brown when he heard the price. At first I though about the hospital I used to work at and code brown referred to a hazardous spill, but I think the fellow in the show was saying he crapped himself when he heard the price. Anyways he ended up buying the item. So this painting name just made me laugh. But seriously, the plan here was to compare every earth colour that I have along with a few bright synthetic colours for comparison. 

Code Brown, 3.5 x 6 1/4" cold press, watercolour, March 2021 (No. 2609a)

 

The paper I use from d'Arches has an infinity logo stamped into it along with their logo which inpired this small  painting. It was also a test of two different maroon paints, scarlet deep (PR175) and perylene maroon (PR179), they comprise the diagonal band, and are very similar.

Infinity Paper, 1.5 x 5" cold press, watercolour, March 2021 (No. 2610a)

 These three condo buildings were dipped in strawberry jam. Fruit flies were teeming.

No Added Value, 3.5 x 6 1/4"cold press, watercolour, March 2021 (No. 2611a)

 

This small painting could be worth millions as a non-fungible token who knows?

 Triple Earth Test, 1 x 3 3/4, cold press, watercolour, March 2021 (No. 2612)

 

More testing of the maroon paints, and one called buff titanium in the diagonal smoke plume. These colours resemble the old alizarin crimson that I used for so many years until abandoning it at the end of 2019. The is a painting I did called The Crushing Delicate years ago that featured alizarin crimson prominently, now that I know to replace it with more lightfast paints I can maybe redo that painting. But the next project is the Flamingo Heaven remake, another old painting that used a poor quality pigment called rhodamine pink, which I can replace now with quinacridone magenta. The world turns.
 

Crimson Cave, 3.5 x 5.5" cold press, watercolour, March 2021 (No. 2613a)