Usually these abstract paintings are palette cleansers, when I am cleaning the paint off my palette after a location trip, but this time it is part of an effort to use up a few odd paints. After experimenting with many types of paint I accumulated over 70 different tubes and pans. Recently, I gave away the Van Gogh pan paints to a graduate student who took an interest in watercolour painting. In this painting, I used green earth from Schminke, which is a pale lime/olive colour, roman black from Stoneground Co., cobalt blue from Holbein, and raw umber from DaVinci. It seemed to be lacking something so I added some lemon yellow ochre from Stoneground Co. They are all fine paints I just haven't been using them much for various reasons. It's still kind of fun to pull out some different paints and see what they look like together. The lemon ochre gave it a real warm kick.
Ending Odds, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, March 2023 (No. 3377a)
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