Thursday's painting...

...  I got my St Petersburg watercolour paints out. 


I have never done a colour chart with them. I used these a lot 20 odd years ago. But the tops of the watercolour pans had gone mouldy...it was my fault, because I had wrapped them in a plastic bag. These paints are generally very wet any way, they don't dry out, like normal watercolours that can go hard.

I cleaned them up in the bathroom sink which is now rainbow coloured...
And made this colour chart. Which took ages. But I needed it as I have forgotten what the darker pans come out like. There were 26 pans originally, I put the extra colours in the middle section, that I needed at the time. And I arranged the colours as I used them at that time, which might not look logical now, but worked at that time.

I didn't have enough time to do a proper bigger painting, so I grabbed a white piece of index card, and did a quick painting...it is probably 6 inches by 4inches (no, I don't deal in metric...). I had to go out because my Cochlear Speech Processor program is corrupted and I can hear nothing with it apart from wierd sounds that cut on and off. It is totally doing my brain in. So I had a long driving trip today...

In the few minutes, about 10 minutes, while I was having a cuppa before I left, the weather had  gone from rainy and cloudy, to clear blue sunny skies (for just a moment), to driving sleet, to driving snow, and then rain. Not a fun day to go and drive in...

So here is this morning's tiny painting...and bits and pieces and colour chart and Chinese paintbrushes. I only use Chinese brushes for watercolour, and have done so since the 1990's when I did Chinese painting and calligraphy under Cathy Wu in the Chinese Pagoda in Liverpool. A lot of the time she spoke in Chinese to us, when she got heated that we were not following her instructions....


I haven't got the speech processor fixed. They couldn't fix it, and I have to go back next week for a replacement and review. Long day, I fell asleep on the couch when I got back, with Popeye on top of me. It's now gone 10pm, and woke up in time to post this before midnight....


I have a lot of catching up to do, your posts and comments replies. I will try tomorrow and Friday...