Today's Rainbow Palette ...
Offered colourful sails and bright skies
to the panel on the easel!
Before the cleaning ....
There are some moments in the studio
where I feel truly 'free' as a painter
and those moments are usually found
during the process of cleaning the palette
at the end of a day's work.
In today's cleaning process
I, unintentionally
made and discovered,
the above,
rather beautiful abstraction.
I almost wish this was a real painting.
Enjoy! ~ Polly ~
2 comments:
I always thought the paint swimming around on the palette was a work of beauty in itself! Yours is wonderful! But it's got me curious to know what your usual palette colors are when you start a painting? I'd love to know!
Hey Katherine!
I love your idea of 'paint swimming around on a palette' ... makes me want to finger paint!
Yes, you are right, a working palette is a work of art unto itself. A funny story, many years ago while I was out plein-air painting, I was approached by a Frenchman, who was rather insistent on buying my palette 'as is' from my pochade box, I had to decline, simply because I needed the palette. I recall the colours being rather rosey ...
As for the usual colours on my palette, which are also the same colours I use when plein-air painting. From left to right sequence; Winsor Newton Artists Oil Colours: 1. Titanium White, 2. Cadmium Yellow, 3. Winsor Red, 4. Permanent Green, 5. French Ultramarine, and 6. Burnt Sienna, but this palette had a visiting colour of Permanent Rose for the day, which you can see.
All in all, I like keeping a warm and harmonious palette ...
Thanks for asking! How goes it for you in the studio?
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