Small canvas. Projection. Draw outlines in pencil. Paint in with white acrylic. Mask areas with masking fluid. Leftover Permanent Geranium and Titanium White paint. Leftover Cadmium Red and Cadmium Yellow paint diluted with turpentine.
After much exertion I finally manage to open a pot of mixed up grey-green and paint it thickly over the top. (I made such a big thing out of that fact, but I never even took a photograph of the result...)
Wildlife watch: Look! There's a green woodpecker strolling round the field picking at insects.
Back in the loft, The Wednesday Painter throws some filthy inky, oily water down the small canvas...
The canvas is rubbed down to allow the application of a verdigris mix of Emerald Green and Prussian Blue with Titanium White...
Some time later: more ink flows down the surface, and then we're outside for a sprinkle with the hose...
The masking fluid is rubbed away (most of it had disintegrated, anyway, during the application of various layers of filth, liquids and spirits).
The canvas is left horizontal, a pool of grubby water, oil and ink glinting under the fluorescent strip light.
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