Orange & Black

Here are a couple of new additions to my Orange & Black series, Orange & Black No. 3 and Orange & Black No. 4. These were painted on Monday, December 15th. The ground, admittedly, looks almost more brownish than orange - call it a "burnt" orange, then, I guess. This is due to a layer of black lurking beneath two coats of a darker and then a lighter orange, allowing some of the black to peek through here and there. I had tried an earlier version without the black underpainting, but the result was a very intense, flat orange with no texture or detail to it, so I started over. That's the first time that's happened, by the way. Usually, I display everything I paint.