At a first glance, the images in Parsonage's paintings might seem somewhat incongruous; a bloated frog with a glazed expression named Alice; a volcano cast
in alizarin hues, emitting hot lava and toxic fumes; a crowd of drinkers with gangly limbs painted in an acrid rose palette, not dissimilar to a flock of flamingoes.
Not exact matches
Next take an acrylic brush and load generously with
alizarin crimson, and sweep over the red areas
in one single movement.
I use lamp black as a dramatic accent as well, placing the pure black
in a part of the painting that is already devoted to very dark mixed blacks (
alizarin crimson and phthalo green or ultramarine blue and burnt umber for example).
He also uses
in his palette Ultramarine Blue, Permanent
Alizarin, Viridian Green also Michael Harding's Naples Yellow and Michael Harding's Vermillion.
Three of these sculptures (
in bright red, deep metallic
alizarin crimson and green) were offered between $ 350,000 and $ 850,000 by three different galleries at Frieze art fair
in New York last week.
[ok for week no. 2 meeting] white paper 90 lb smooth, notebook is fine exacto or utility knife rubber cement straight edge or ruler fashion magazines, instructions
in class to follow commercial paint supply color strips, instructions
in class to follow titanium white or equivalent gouache french ultramarine blue gouache cobalt blue gouache cerulean blue gouache veridian green gouache cadmium red medium
alizarin crimson gouache magenta gouache cadmium yellow light gouache cadmium yellow deep gouache raw sienna gouache lamp black or equivalent gouache 2 glass containers with lids for water plastic paint palette with dividers 2 - 3 paint brushes including small round tip, medium flat, example # 8 flat or equivalent small spray bottle [facial atomizers are good] clean rag or paper towel
Alizarin crimson, mars black, cadmium yellow, ultramarine blue all make a prominent showing
in the work.
In the corner of the annex sits
Alizarin Crimson Corner Piece (1974), a painting made on canvas shaped to fit the three sides of a corner.
An
alizarin crimson door, for instance, might be well - received by buyers, but a house
in the same shade could potentially limit offers.