Ochre is one of the oldest pigments known to art, it can be found on rock walls and in caves from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe ten thousand years from now my ochre paintings will still be around, at least if the internet is still be around somebody can look at them on my blog! Actually I picked up some watercolour ground from Schmincke at Deserres, that is a product that you can paint onto any surface including rocks, and once it dries you can do watercolour on it like normal. Maybe the designs in this painting could be used on the rock painting. I did a larger version of this painting yesterday, I called it Ochre Mind, but Cilei thought it would be better kept until the fall season. It needed more yellow she said. So this version is primarily ochres along with some synthetics like bismuth yellow (PY184). The paper is the same brand I used for the palette cleanser series. This was a palette cleanser of sorts but I decided to give them proper names instead of just numbering the paintings. I quite like this one, has a real hippy vibe (I am listening to Grateful Dead right now).
Ochre Spring, 9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2658a)
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