It's all about the Payne's Grey

I wanted to challenge myself, to see if by limiting my palette to one color, namely Payne's Gray* I could shift the emphasis from the chroma, or color, to the texture of the paint itself (which I have thickened up with various acrylic pastes and gels). I did cheat a little with some Titanium White, but everybody knows Titanium White is a slutty pigment that will jump onto the palette with almost anyone...

THIS, 36x36" acrylic on canvas

*Originally a mixture of iron blue (Prussian blue), yellow ochre and crimson lake,^[3] Payne's grey now is often a mixture of blue (ultramarine or phthalocyanine) and black ^[4] or of ultramarine and Sienna. The colour is named after William Payne, who painted watercolours in the late 18th century.

from Wikipedia, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne%27s_grey