The weekend painting with salt water left a right mess on my palette. I used a variety of brushes, including the smallest rigger and the largest hogs hair. A rigger has longer hairs on the brush which creates a spontaneous line as you see with the burnt sienna highlights. The hogs hair brush looks like the end of a pigs tail, and is mostly used for cleaning but occasionally I use it to produce an effect. Like in the Water Lily Pond painting, which was one of the technical achievements of the year, I used the hogs hair to create the delicate algae effect on the pond surface. In this painting, which is a palette cleanser, I just dabbed colours all over.
Brushes Away, 9 x 12" watercolour paper, watercolour, November 2021 (No. 2961a)
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