LLAWN02 – The Presence Of Absence – post three

I plan to make an acrylic painting about my object and reference the place it was made as well as imagining the ellipse (shape) and colour; the imagined colour of pewter. I will also use colours observed from around Cranbourn Street – the red tiles of the Station; shop fronts etc. Also, the slope of the street, grey tiles, pedestrianised but on an interesting camber, mirroring the climb north on Charing Cross Road. Cranbourn is a wide street sloping elegantly into the green square. When walking back from Cranbourn street I called into Making Colour at the National Gallery. There a still life by Jan Jansz Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Flagon and Two Ming Bowls gave me the colour indication I was looking for when thinking about the colour of pewter: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-jansz.-treck-still-life-with-a-pewter-flagon-and-two-ming-bowls.
Quite a blue-grey, perhaps with lead content. The kind of gun metal blue mixed with Cobalt and Burnt Sienna. But, perhaps the Bray plate is more silvery, typical of tableware. Incidentally, the painting is included into the exhibition as the colour of blue in the Ming bowls had faded to a green, the artist using a fugitive blue.