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While prepping my palette for tomorrows hopeful painting trip, I found some tubes of paint that inspired this painting. Traditionally green, orange and purple are considered secondary colours, although this designation serves no useful purpose in art. What is the proof? Ask yourself if you would want wallpaper in your living room to look like this. The paints were dioxazine purple (PV23), phthalo turquoise (PB16), phthalo blue-green (PG7), and isoindo yellow (Py110) with a little benzi orange (PO62).

Secondary Thoughts 5.5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, April 2021 (No. 2622b)

This one used a similar colour scheme but more yellow and some white showing through. It was meant to resemble a kind of acoustic chamber, like the inside of a speaker, or ear drums. As I learn more about colour theory, it occurred to me that I do not see colour like other artists who write the books, I suppose that I rather hear the colour, or feel it perhaps.

Sounds of Colour 5.5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, April 2021 (No. 2621b)

I did this one a few days ago, partly to use up some of the ultramarine blue I had on the palette, you can see it in the snakey thing in the foreground. The name of the painting was simply a place holder I added while cataloguing, it seemed a ripe place for a painting. If it weren't called this, I would have called it colour infinity.

Not Painted Yet (Colour Infinity) 4 x 6" cold press, watercolour, April 2021 (No. 2611b)

Dear diary, I also practiced a Brazil-themed painting this week, trying to work out the best paint combination to depict the Amazon river and rain forest from a birds eye view. Google map satellite view helped me get in the ballpark, then I did the smartest thing an artist could do in this situation, ask a Brazilian! Cilei agreed that goethite (PBr7 granulating) was the best choice for the river, and the mix of phthalo green yellow shade (PG36) with benzi orange deep (PO36), and yellow highlights (PY175) was best for the rain forest canopy. Her last name translates into people by the river, so what could be better than that? I will work on the actual painting soon, planning on using a larger piece of the St. Armand paper made in Montreal. So it will be a true Brazilian-Montreal fusion.

Brazilian Test 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, April 2021 (No. 2607b)