As I use up paint tubes, I make sure to squeeze out every last drop onto the palette. However, the tubes can easily be cut open and there is more paint hiding in there. After collecting a bag of used up tubes, I started cutting some open, recovering what I can, and making these abstract paintings on weekends and evenings. This one is a hybrid of the words Magenta and Montreal.. The magenta shapes are supposed to be like people holding hands or shaking hands.
Magentreal, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2026
With a lot of yellow tubes over the years, its the most used colour I have by far, I tried to use as much as possible in this painting along with orange, brown, and lime-green. Its like a 1970's era wallpaper or curtain pattern. Van Gogh used a lot of yellow paint, he was constanly asking his brother to send more.
Mustard and Mud, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2026
Inspired by the rivers in Winnipeg which come together and apart as they meander, this painting used bright yellow surrounded by black, dark green, and dark red, with a chunk of bright green. The dark green and red are the perylenes... perylene green with perylene red. Despite having similar chemical structures, these two pigments are nearly opposite on the hue circle. So perylene green and red are together, chemically, but apart, visually.
Together Apart, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2026
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