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I bought things like cold-pressed linseed oil, brushes and tubes of colors: Naples Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Indian Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ocher, Crimson, Titanium White, Cobalt and Winsor Blue, Magenta, Indigo, Raw Umber, Light and Venetian Red, Olive Green, Cadmium and Light Red and oodles of others. I bought a few at a time which is all I could afford.
The colors would be symbolic of theme. This was a sculpture color study. The paintings were more like sculpture, as designs of vivid colors, that I could not get in a ceramics kiln. I did a color wheel study, and how to make various colors from the primaries of red, yellow and blue, but at the same time I was studying color symbolism. My themes were primarily psychological and indicative of unconscious mechanisms. I was using color blocks that should represent the theme and gist of the piece. But the main thing was that the colors had to match and produce an affect in combination. The process I learned was to start with the largest color block, choose a color and match all the rest to that.
I was also experimenting a little with dark-mind, or mental magic as visualizations. It was maybe being attacked by spiritual demons, when one is in bed at night. Maybe I would do some sorties of my own, but against whom I have not the faintest idea; maybe against those who made me angry for one reason
or another, and while they bothered me I had no material facility to bother them. I remember when in Saint Helena, hearing a radio show about two guys and a woman, who bribed a guard and slept overnight in the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
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