17 March 2010 A sad end

Today I burned Sydney, Vancouver, Venice, Hong Kong, New York, Glasgow, and London.

There is a wastage rate from our big giclee printer.

Sometimes the colours are wrong, sometimes the roll runs out before all the print is finished, sometimes the ink smudges etc.

So I get large bits of very good quality paper that I can use to paint over.

I use these big coloured scraps to try out ideas, experiment, or often just enjoy myself.

The paintings are sometimes good, sometimes not so good.

So today I took the plunge and destroyed about 200 near-miss paintings on paper that have cluttered up the studio for too long.