Here is yet another palette cleanser, a small abstract painting done while cleaning the paint on my palette. After a morning of location painting the palette was quite messy although I do clean it on location with a large hogs hair brush to keeping the mixing areas clean when doing several paintings in succession. The other thing I find appealing about these kinds of paintings is that I can see some really bright colours, and just paint shapes and things that I enjoy. When location painting the artist is taking all the cues from the scene, with the goal to have exacting standards. In this painting, I reminisced about the things I saw on my bike ride and converted the memories into an abstraction. For example, the stacked blocks on the right were the Habitat 67, and the green spans were the old Champlain bridge.
How I Saw It, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, May 2022 (No. 3019a)
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