I have been doing these palette cleanser paintings for awhile now, the first one was done last summer, and the series wrapped up with #60 which shows the paint leaping off the palette. Instead of continuing the numbering I decided to give these paintings a proper name and not necessarily limit them to palette cleaning. With a lot of new paint, this style allows me to experiment and make discoveries. It is also nice to just paint for the fun of it, which is supposed to be the whole point after all. For me it is more of a compulsion, or an addiction I suppose. Bruce MacEvoy's concept of saturation costs from his website handprint.com said when you mix two saturated (bright intense) colours together the product will be dull. Yellow plus blue produces a dull green. You see the circles around the windows are a very saturated green made from phthalo green (PG36) but the rest of the tube is mixed yellow and blues which look dull by comparison.
Tube of Colour, 9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, March 2021 (No. 2533b)
Note: Tonight (this morning?) I pretty much finished another painting 'Saturation Costs' it has been in the planning since last March based on lab book #22 doodles that capture the COVID-19 pandemic feelings of the time. It was very disturbing to do that painting, the results are like nothing I have ever painted before. I'll post that one along with another painting from lab book #22. Now that the weather is improving I'll start painting outside again, I took a few days off due to cold exposure. Even my plastic palette had cracked all over due to the cold!
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