Twist In My Sobriety

A second painting today and it’s another abstract with inks. I was struggling to think of a name for it, so just picked the name of a Tania Tikaram track after doing another painting earlier today that shared a name with one of her tracks. Deep.

The underlying watercolours are raw sienna, light red and transparent yellow. The plan was to start with something generally orangey that I could add some indigo or maybe green ink to & end up with roughly complimentary colours. As it turned out, I used all five inks. With the sap green and olive green, I tried to tip the paper to make them run up the page and that seemed to work OK. With the sepia, indigo and earthy red, I tried to make them run down but with less success. I used granulation fluid with the inks, just like before. The grass at the top was just added by applying a brush to the inks that were already there. I didn’t add a point of interest (like the house in Horsehead Quarry) because the painting ended up looking like something on a much smaller scale.

This actually looks OK in a frame, even if it’s an acquired taste.  It’s up for sale.