April 8th is the big day of the solar eclipse, its all over the news and people are selling eclipse glasses or telling you how to make your own. This palette cleansing abstract was inspired by the eclipse idea, with the white-ringed circles in the top left. My palettes were in need of some cleaning, I have two identical palettes nowadays. In theory I should always have one ready to go, but today I had to clean both and squeeze out paint. That's the fun part, squeezing fresh paint out, its so bright and gooey looking. When it dries on the palette its has a matte almost glassy appearance. Even though I teach on Monday, I may try to make an eclipse painting after class, just careful not to look it at directly.
Paper Eclipse, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2024
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