Last summer we had incredible heat and I painted about a dozen large paintings that day including Feeling Cool, which was the visual equivalent of a jump in the pool. Today was nearly as hot or perhaps even more so, well over 40℃ with the humidity factored in. The blue droplets in the painting were meant to be little refreshing splashes of water across a sun baked landscape. Most of the painting uses red-yellow-violet, which sets up the stark blue/orange contrast of the splash areas. The painting did not help me feel cool though, for that I stuck my head under the garden hose!
This looks like one of the many palette cleansers that I have done over the years, but it is actually using the Van Gogh paint set I bought recently. It contains very bright and easy to use paints in pan format, with a few extras I added such as warm sienna from Stone ground paint, and some tube paint including indo blue (PB60) and dark magenta (PV19) squeezed into tiny pans.
Palette Cleanser: Hot Day Painting, 9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, August 2021 (No. 2889a)
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