Office tag blue yellow red

Due to the achromatic (pale beige) nature of my office, I made a special painting with maximum colour brightness to spice things up. Being on a graffiti kick, I used a graffiti-inspired design, with a bit of influence from Japanese woodblock print. The initials and date (PJD25) were made to look like they were applied with a stamp. Since spray-painting my name on the office wall probably would have got me in trouble, I opted for the st Armand paper that I aquired from the local paper makers down by the Lachine canal before they moved their business out of Montreal. I met the paper makers, an old couple who had been hand making paper for decades, and they sold me a couple of stacks of paper in various sizes. They start by recycling old rags and clothing, processing the paper fibers, and pressing them out on a giant press device that I saw in person. To do this painting, I used the colour splash technique with a large watery blob of blue (PB15) and scratched in lines with the pointy end of the brush. After a few days of drying I applied the numbers and lettering with pyrol vermillion (PR255), waited a day, then brushed on copius amounts of bismuth vanadate yellow (PY184). The colour scheme was inspired by an abstact painting I did in 2020 called Palette Cleanser #42. 

Office tag blue yellow red, watercolour 16 x 24" st Armande paper, November 2025