Whoa!

So, after the last painting was a quinacridone magenta free zone, I had to follow it up quickly with another painting. Something experimental, without too much thought put into it, definitely not based on any photo and possibly abstract.

After Purple Rain came out so well, I thought I’d go for the acrylic inks again and do something vaguely volcano related. I threw down a random sky with French ultramarine, quinacridone magenta and what I thought was Indian yellow but turned out to be cadmium yellow. Proof that I wan’t thinking too much. Then came the hill with the same three colours plus cadmium red. All splashed on fairly randomly but thicker than the colours in the sky. Finally I applied some inks, sprayed water on them to make them move in the direction I wanted, tipped the paper around and applied granulation fluid in places. I kept doing this with all sorts of different colours (I used all five colours in my collection) until I ended up with something that looked good. At this stage the sky was looking a bit boring, so I went over it again to intensify it a bit. Then I spotted I’d been using the wrong yellow and switched to Indian yellow. I applied a load of this around the top of the hill to look a bit fiery and explosive. And a bit of quinacridone magenta in there too to make it orangey. Finally I flicked some bits of the (Indian yellow & quinacridone magenta) orange and Indian yellow onto the paper.

And then I stood back and all I can say is whoa! This is one of my favourites and I find it a little frightening that I have something like this in me. This one goes down as a big success.  It’s up for sale.