Paint resupply, abstract paintings

Here is an abstract painting I made awhile ago, using a variety of warm earth colours with blue accents. It was a so-called palette cleanser, where I was cleaning the palette paints with a brush and using the excess to make a painting. Its also fun to just paint something without any constraints. With abstract the idea is to paint what you feel. Getting reading glasses was a mid-life chroma! 

Mid life chroma, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, October 2026

Realizing the supply chain and cost issues are creeping into the fine-art supply world, I decided to stock up on some of my favorite and most used paints. The first 6 tubes are DaVinci brand delivered from Studio Six Toronto, and the last six are Daniel Smith brand, mostly from Kama pigments Montreal except for the pink ones. The pink ones are called quinacridone lilac PR122, and I used to get a good version of it from Schmincke brand, but that brand is not really available anymore, and other companies do not carry it.

From left to right, these are 37mL tubes of raw sienna (PBr7), raw umber (PBr7), 2 x yellow ochre (PY43), and 15mL tubes of 2 x DaVinci yellow (PY154), followed by bismuth vanadate yellow (PY184), burnt yellow ochre (PR102), lamp black (PBk6), phthalo green yellow shade (PG36), and 2 x  quinacridone lilac (PR122). Should last me awhile!  

One last painting I did, after being reminded at work about the importance of getting 'high impact' publications, I did this painting instead. Its a high impact painting... like lots of clashing colours. You would think 'high impact' is a bad thing after all, like collisions, but in science it seems to be a good thing, it means you spent a lot of money on the research project. 

High impact, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, October 2026