I have been looking at using the Primary Colours in a way which uses the colour mix when they overlap.  I wanted to produce a result as effective as that achieved in my “Knight’s Tour Fragments” abstract shown below.

Here I produced a similar effect to overlapping pieces of coloured glass.

This time I decided to give each Primary Colour a distinctive shape which seemed to reflect the nature of the colour itself.  Red often represents Fire and so I decided to use straight lines and pointed angles to contain it.  Blue is a quieter colour often representing water and so I decided upon curves and flowing fingers to contain it.  Yellow can represent the sun and I thought of the outline of Australia, which includes the “sunshine state” of Queensland.

Joan and myself visited some friends of hers in Queensland in 2013.  They lived inland from Brisbane in a large wooden house that they built, which had a couple of wallabies resident in the garden.  They moved to live on the Gold Coast a few years ago, but heard from old neighbours in early 2020 that a bush fire had nearly destroyed their old house.  The street had been evacuated and the fire was apparently heading for the house but veered off in another direction just in time.  The increased number of fires are attributed to Global Warming.

Earlier this month we saw on the news that floods in Sydney were amongst the worst since records began in the 1850’s.

With all these things coming together, I decided upon Primary Colours and Australia as part of a Continuous Line workshop I did a couple of weeks ago at Harrogate and Nidderdale Art Club.

For the picture at the top of this post, I superimposed the straight line Red fire line and the curvy Blue water line on top of the sunny Yellow Australia.  This produced semi-primes Orange, Green and Violet areas and where all three Primes overlapped we have a sort of muddy Brown.

I like to think that the outline of a subject can be used to direct continuous lines into the interior which create an image representing the subject.  After completing a single continuous line over a map of Australia I realised that there was something like a kangaroo in there which I have marked in red.  Also, if you push things a little, there may be a Black Swan over Western Australia.

The friends we visited have my Wallaby painting in their house on the Gold Coast.

Other Primary Colour things we did I will cover in a later post.