With Attachments

I call these paintings palette cleansers for two reasons, one because I am literally cleaning the paints on my palette, and two, they are a good way to explore colour and shapes without having constraints. On location, much of the scenery is grey, green, brown, and blue, and the goal is to paint something that represents reality. In the abstract setting, everything is up to the imagination, and there is no right or wrong. Abstract painting emerged in the early 20^th century as a legitimate style. Artists like Cézanne, Picasso, Dali, Mondrian, Hilma af Klint, and Jack Whitten were among the first to develop and popularize the style. It may seem easy in a way, but when painting an abstract it is kind of like driving a car at full speed in a large parking lot without any brakes ... a lot can go wrong!
 

With Attachments,  watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, August 2022 (No. 3196b)