Still Plugged In

Here I am catching up on some blogging on a rainy day. Luckily tomorrow's forecast is sunny and I should be able to get down to the river for some painting. I did this abstract on the horizontal but kind of liked it better on the vertical like this. The blue on the top is cobalt blue (PB28), its a colour that I took off my palette a long time ago, but I still have some left in some old tubes. The bright yellow is vanadium yellow (PY184) which is extremely opaque basically a type of gauche in the way it handles. My current lab book #25 is almost full of doodles and I think its going to be good for at least two doodle paintings. This abstract was a test to see if I can use these paints in a larger doodle work. I think that it will work, the colours are bright and work well together with the blue, yellow and red-magenta giving a range of mixtures. No pigment is truly magenta by the way, despite the names the company gives. The only thing that is technically magenta based on hue angle is carbazol violet and you would call it purple if you saw it. PR122 is the closest to the idea of magenta, it is about half way between red and magenta and has a really high value (bright looking). Some companies add artificial brightener agents though (aluminum hydrate for example) so its hard to tell what you are buying some times.    

Still Plugged In, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2024