You might think that two people are posting on this blog, one who does careful, realistic scenes in the city, and another who does wild and crazy abstract paintings. I can assure you its the same artist who does both styles, and everything in between. In this painting I was using up the last of the perylene green (PBk31), yellow (PY154) and pyrol orange (PO73) from old tubes. I already replaced the perylene green since its a mainstay of my palette, as well as the yellow which I just got delivered today from Studio Six. I probably wont replace the pyrol orange, the only use I had was mixing it with indo blue (PB60) for night skies, but I can approximate it with another orange I have called benzi orange deep from Da Vinci company (PO36). Orange was the paint that I never had at all until 2020, now I find it useful for many things including high-intensity brick when mixed with burnt sienna (PR101), and to create the glowing sun on tree bark or wood structures, and to tint the sky when the sun is getting low. Isoindo yellow (PY110) is also excellent for simulating the low sun, and for making high intensity olive greens. I forget why I called this painting baked retina, but it sure is a cool name!
Baked Retina, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2023 (No. 3597b)
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