Here are a couple of abstract paintings I made with the 'everything palette' which contains among other interest paints, carbazole violet (PV23) a rich dark purple. I had a greatest hits of the Grateful Dead playing in the background which inspired the artwork and the titles, including 'strange trip' which is part of a lyric from Truckin' : "What a long, strange trip its been." and Grateful Art which is just a play on their band name. The first painting is an organic trippy play on a landscape with a variety of colours and brushwork technique, the second painting is done more in the doodleism style although not from lab notes this time just from my imagination.
Strange Trip, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, December 2024
In Grateful Art I also used some of the things I learned from painting crescent moons at night... the colour transition, technique, and the particular shade of green that pine trees have at night which is nearly black. The flowers and tye-dye motifs are definitely hippy things.
Grateful Art, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, December 2024
l liked both. Then, while reading the last paragraph l discovered why. 🤭
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