Emily at Tate Liverpool suggested I try painting with beetroot as it is a strong colour so I used beetroot, tumeric, coffee and parsley to paint these pictures. The parsley did not stay green but turned brown but the beetroot kept it's colour and the tumeric is very vibrant. Frank Leahy suggested using instant coffee and that proved to be much easier than filter.
This was sketched using the charcoal then watercolour painted over. The charcoal floated in the water and settled randomly over the picture giving it this odd, mottled effect.
The watercolour was from an old palette so I could not predict the colours or how it would take on the paper. The paper is an old piece of cartridge paper I found in a bag of scraps.
