Painted on one of the hottest days in the summer, this small abstract shows a calamity of shapes and earth colours swirling around a baked potato horizon. Last summer I did a series of large paintings in the extreme heat, albeit in much hotter conditions than this year. The world is practically the hottest it has ever been due to oil and gas being overused by people. Let us hope some kind of solution is on the way.
Another reason for doing this painting was to try out the new transparent umber I got recently, made by Schmincke and sold by Deserres. It has a pigment code of PR101 and the transparent label, indicating that this pigment is normally used in wood and leather stains. Leather is not actually brown, it comes out pale grey without some kind of pigment. The transparent umber had a warm cherry-chocolate appearance when wet, then it dried slightly duller and without the orange tint. In the end it looked just like the burnt umber I had bought previously. It handles different though, making cleaner mixes with indo blue (PB60), so I will start using this instead of the raw umber (PBr7).
Earth Heat, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2021
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