Here is the 9th painting in the Lab Book series, which was done in two parts called "Archi-doodle City W" (top panel) and "Archi-doodle City E" (bottom panel). The two sides are part of a single design, which depicts a sprawling European-style city filled with doodle-inspired buildings and strange creatures. The two paintings are complete works on their own, meant to be viewed side by side. The majority of the design came from lab notes, although some of the normal looking building interspersed throughout the painting were taken from a postcard from Lyon France.
This was by far the hardest of the lab book series. I was trying to pack in as many doodles as I could so that I could get to the end of all of the lab notebooks I have, but I could only make it to my lab notes from 2006. And in the last six months or so I have amassed another few books. At any rate, the doodles in this work were densely packed into an intricate, 3-D design with many overlapping and interweaving elements. Somewhere in the middle of filling in the colours and shadows of the west side, I felt great despair that the work would never be finished, but after chipping away at it 20 minutes or n hour at a time, somehow it got done! While painting I listened to some classic/psychedelic rock, using some of the song names and lyrics in the design (see the inscriptions on the roofs on both segments and the train on the east segment).
Lab Book #12 Archi-doodle City (W), 11 x 22", cold press 2008 (No. 2000)
Lab Book #12 Archi-doodle City (E), 11 x 22", cold press 2008 (No. 2001)
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