Starting off with the central yellow brushstroke, the rest of the composition worked around that element to create a playful mosaic. It was also a so-called 'palette cleanser' which is where I clean the paint blobs on my palette with a paint brush and use the extra colours for a painting instead of just running my palette under the sink tap which wastes a bit of paint. Some artists only use watercolour freshly squeezed from the tube, which makes the paint a bit more potent and thick, but its not practical to do this on location. I am so used to letting the paint blobs dry, and then re-activate with a moist brush when needed. Whatever works! I did a quarterly count of paintings, and I am up to about 162 at the end of March, so a little over 50 per month. I feel like its a high number considering that most of them were on location, some in Brazil. Usually its harder to paint in the winter and I do studio stuff, but to be honest I do not find studio painting very fun in comparison to location painting. These abstracts are all done in studio. By the way, the studio is actually half of our dining room table, I have a grey cloth tablecloth folded over half the table and use it to paint and put all my paint stuff after a painting excursion.
Hue Knows? watercolour 9 x 6" watercolour paper, April 2026
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