Last blog for the day: Four Abstracts

Last blog for the day! I catalogued the last month or so of paintings, that is where I name and number them and update the OpenOffice excel sheet. There are about 230 paintings so far this year which is outpacing even last year's output. The goal is not to make a mountain of paintings, but seriously, I am exploring all the new paints and ideas in every way, and doing a ton of location paintings too. In this one, I used a range of earth colours to produce the glowing gold lights, and in the background, every shade of green I know how to make. It was landscape format (horizontal) but I liked it better vertical format. Would be a good one to make a larger version.

Chromatic Idea, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2635b)

 

Naming paintings is always fun. I rebranded my Instagram today as "Gum Drop Tornado" which is the name of an old abstract. Heart beet seemed original at the time, a beet that sort of looks like a heart, but the phrase is already much used on the internet to describe a cooking method. You slice the beet, shape the slices like a heart, then cook them... heart beets. Now, if someone was living inside of a house that was in the shape of a heart beet, then you would have it "in a heart beat". Got to up the meme game.

Heart Beet, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2638b)

 

An incredible news story came out the other day, America was warning its people not to kiss chickens for fear of picking up salmonella poisoning. The real surprise was that American people actually kiss chickens. This painting shows some red white and blue things sucking water from a pond, with a pair of kissing chickens in the background.

Kissing Chickens, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2644b)

Inspired by the world inspired Bulgaria painting, this shows an underground cavern with iron oxide violet (PR101 caput mortum) structures, and a glowing turquoise cavern lake. I like the light bright effect here, if I were to redo Bulgaria, the cave portion on the bottom would look more like this. Actually, when I started the Bulgaria painting it was an abstract, and then started to look like a cave so I went with it. Maybe this one needs a few cave paintings on it, like in the Botswana painting.

Iron Violet Cave, 5 x 7" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2645b)