C451, #3; The Lesson

This could have easily been included in the lab book series, it was based on note-book doodles from my 4th year chemistry notes. I did this painting around the same time as lab book #1-3, well before Lab book #4. I suppose what stopped me from including this one in the lab book series was that this painting has a lot of 'depth' to it: the audience in the foreground, the perspective of the classroom, the blue sky and trees seen behind the fence to the right of the chalk board, all contribute to a highly 3-D image. The depth, plus the colour scheme, and overall feel of this work puts in the same stylistic category as the lab book #14 series 'three ringed flying circus on wheels'. For those reasons I felt that this work did not represent the continuum of visual ideas , but was rather ahead of it's time in the Lab Book series journey. I have not talked much about the actual doodles that these paintings come from. Most of them are in the margins across the top or down the side of the note page. The doodles can often be long and narrow, as you may notice in this work, look around the left right and top and you see some wide or tall doodles that make up the ceiling and the walls. In terms of the doodle content, I sometimes draw things from my surrounding (the professor in this case, and some students) although most of it comes from my imagination. Most if the doodles are flowing and organic, stripes and twirls and dots, less frequently I make the doodles linear and mechanical. But I always strive to make the doodles different from each other. I suppose that is one feature that drives the creativity, if you always just try to make one drawing different from the last one, you end up creating something totally different and ever evolving. 11x 14" cold press, 2002-2003?

EDIT: At some point I retrospectively included this in the lab book series, Lab Book #3, The Lesson