The Self-Isolation Residency 23rd April 2020: Day 25

So I'm starting off with another detail again tonight, another grouping of objects that I feel say a lot about me.  Although this area isn't entirely finished I think that its close enough to explore most of the details. Of course the principle item included in this area is the palette and its to that which I intend to focus most of my attention in today's post. 

As I have mentioned previously the word 'palette' can have two different although related meanings to a painter. The first is obviously the physical object onto which the paint is squeezed from the tube and then mixed. But the second meaning of the word palette is the more interesting, it denotes the selection of colours that a painter will choose to include in a particular painting.  By including my palette(s) in this painting I am intending to tell the observer more details about myself; to begin with it tells the observer that I'm a painter and to the greater extent it also tells them that I am not a watercolourist, the paint appears to be too viscus to be watercolour and generally speaking it's the wrong type of palette for watercolours. These could possibly acrylics but I've supplied some more information which is what the self portrait is all about and that means the process is working. Whenever you are reading a portrait of this type there are very few absolutes, much of what is included will rely upon interpretation, just as it should.

But I'm actually giving much more information away when the second meaning of the word palette is applied. For those knowledgeable enough, and with a keen eye. it should be possible to tell exactly which colours I've used in this painting as the colours representing on the palette are the exact and unmixed colours used to paint the painting and so to a degree we have the idea of a painting within a painting here. I admit that I have used shadows and highlights to give the globules of paint form, but the actual main body of the colour is straight from the tube and unadulterated. I wouldn't however suggest that the colour reproduction in the photograph is good enough to evaluate the actual hues from, but you are welcome to try.