Last Drop Valley

I've been trying to use up the last of my old paint tubes. When they get low I roll the tin tubes and squeeze them with a pair of pliers to get every last drop. Then, I unroll and snip them open to get at the last of the paint stuck to inside the tube. At that point its not very practical but I can extract the last dregs of paint and make a few extra paintings. In this one, pyrol orange (PO73) provides the brilliant orange, along with yellow (PY154), perylene green (PBk31) and some lapis lazuli (natural pigment). Watercolour paint is like coffee, good to the last drop. The composition was inspired by Hiroshige, the great Japanese painter and illustrator who developed the idea of using triangles in the foreground, and overlapping elements to create depth. The circular reflection pond in the bottom right was borrowed from my painting called 'The 20/10 Solution'.

Last Drop Valley, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2023 (No. 3593b)