Framed watercolour - George Field's Colour Circle

This watercolour painting is a remake of the chemist George Field's colour circle from 1846. This colour diagram would have been originally constructed colour-circlefrom the primary colours of red, yellow and blue. In this artwork these primary colours have been replaced with the colours closest to them that can be derived from materials found in London. This locates this canonical colour diagram in the locale and time frame of contemporary London.

The pigments use din this painting are: (L-R clockwise)

-Earth colours fro London pink, red, orange, yellow

-Verdigris in three shades

-Blue slate

-Purple slate

The artwork is made of solid oak and uses low reflective museum glass.

Dimensions:

H 37 cm x L 29.3 x W 3 cm