Part of the Lab Book series, this painting was actually done from some small notebooks that I used in early 2005 to take notes during meetings and lectures. The doodleism technique was used to create this scene, where 'evil' creatures are coming out of the desert and crossing a river to invade the 'good' creatures that are defending a castle. My favorite part is the robot dueling the brain in the foreground, and the golden eagle soaring above the battle.
Technically this painting was made in a similar manner as the other lab book paintings. First I copied out the doodles from the lab books using thin paint outlines. Shortly after sitting down I knew what the theme would be, a battle scene with creatures crossing to a castle. So I placed the doodles in a way that fit the theme. Then, I applies shadows and colour washed, using a complementary colour scheme. There is a cool part in the middle just behind the woman on the chair, where your eye is taken into a perspective-shift, suddenly you are looking in the sky...by the way, the name of the painting was taken after a sculpture here at the hospital, it is called 'Nature revelaing herself before man'.
Lab Book #8 (Stubborn Nature Revealing Herself), watercolour 22 x 15" cold press, 2008 (No. 1942)
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