Monday, 7 September 2026

Landscape in one colour

 

That colour being Davy's Grey - you expect it to be like Payne's Grey, but it isn't: it is, as you see, a dullish green - but offers a wide range of tones, from dark to scarcely visible.  Looking at a painting by one Michael  Hanrahan, I saw this in his abstract shapes - sketched it, looked away, and when I looked back, I couldn't see it again.  But I got it, and it will serve as my study for a larger painting (this is around A5, in my L'oeil watercolour sketchbook).   The bird/flying saucer at top right is in fact just a mark on the scanner screen - but I thought I'd leave it.  A) laziness, B) it just seems to belong there.