In the course of learning science I have made many, many doodles in the margins of my notebooks. I like to think that science inspires art, but in fact sometimes science is just boring and the art comes as a consequence. Luckily when you are doodling people often think your are astutely taking notes. The painting 'Bubble Catchers" was done based on a doodle I made during my training at McGill. I have made several such paintings from my lab book doodles, and call the style "Doodleism", since all art movements seem to end in "-ism". The largest work I have ever done is called "Lab Book#7: Construction at site 22" and will be featured soon.
Technically this is a straightforward painting. I used a light weight rag/pulp mix paper, student quality. The paper does not hold too much paint so everything is done quickly in a single layer, the colour-fades done by dropping concentrated paint into the wet layers. Some details were put on the next day when the painting dried. The bright pink was from a different brand of paint (usually all my paint is Windsor-Newton). I signed with a shorthand P-D.
Bubble Catchers, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, 2008 (No. 1606-2)
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