You may need a magnifying glass to see the details in this thumbnail-click on the picture to see an expanded version! The original and took nearly 4 months to complete. The work is based on doodles from my lab book notes (during Ph.D). The individual doodles from margins of the lab book were assembled into the large scene in the painting. The scene depicts the construction of a (strange) building on the surface of the moon. The building is flood-lit from the front. Beside the site, there is a lake filled with moon-sea-monsters, and in the distant sky a space ship prepares to land. On the other side (right) a tribal statue stands in a field of tree stumps. In the foreground there are vehicles, construction workers (that look like grover) and moon-birds.
Despite the detail, doing this painting was very straighforward. It began with the outline of the doodles in dark paint. Then I applied the shadows in brown and blue paint and began to establish a colour scheme. Lastly, I went over the first two layers with the final colour washes, and then applied the finishing touches. I will be displaying expanded excerpts of the work in the future. There are currently three others in the lab-book collection (lab book #4,#5, #6).
Lab Book #7: Construction at Site 22, watercolour 30 x 42" cold press, 2004 (No. 3346)
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