Recently a woman went to a doctor with neurological symptoms and the doctors decided to operate on her brain. Inside they found a 10 cm (3 in) long parasitic worm wriggling around, which they removed with forceps and patched her up. Hence the name of this painting, yuck. I started with the purple squiggles using the amazing carbazol violet (PV23), then arranged more squiggles, which are more like birthday streamers surrounded by balloons if you prefer that more pleasant analogy. Cilei really liked the purple. I tried putting carbazol violet on my landscape palette but it was very odd, and seemed to be warmer than I thought, as in, it made a maroon colour when mixed with brown, and neutral grey when mixed with green. It is still great for abstract paintings though.
Brain Worms, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, September 2023 (No. 3645a)
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