Brown Paper & Ultramarine

You know what the perfect art material is? A Primark bag. Or at least, that's what I painted these on, because I love brown paper. It feels nice and different to paint on brown paper, and although I actually have a roll of brown paper that I use for packaging/wrapping purposes, since it's in a roll it's impossible to flatten down. So I used a Primark bag instead, which I kept for this very purpose after buying some boots there a while ago.

I thought I'd use a nice dark blue as a kind of antithesis to the postbox red I've been using lately. It's more of a gentle colour, I guess, but still has a brightness to it. It's pretty much ultramarine, actually. That was my favourite colour for a while. I had a cool biker-style jacket in ultramarine and black. I kinda miss jackets like that.

From the Wikipedia page for ultramarine:

Ultramarine is a deep blue color and a pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. The name comes from the Latin ultramarinus, literally "beyond the sea", because the pigment was imported into Europe from mines in Afghanistan by Italian traders during the 14th and 15th centuries.

Colours are the best.