Another Thursday

Picture this, you're walking down a boardwalk, say in Vancouver, and suddenly an Orca jumps out of the water. Just another Thursday? On top of that the water, beach and sky is a kaleidoscope of colours and shapes. Maybe it's just another Thursday for the Beatles... by the way, the date in the top right is not the date the painting was done, but the date of the doodle I used for that section. It says 7 10 11 which is October 11 2007, I use this order of year month day to keep my laboratory records consistent. In retrospect I found out that Japanese also use year month day.

Reflecting on this style which I coined doodleism, I often think it is inspired by Salvador Dali. Dali created dream like landscape and populated them with abstract objects and characters. For Dali, the landscape was the cake, and abstract forms was the icing on top. My style is a bit different in it's conception... I use a bunch of abstract shapes and characters to create the landscape. That would be kind of like making a whole caking out of icing, and then putting some cake filling on top. I do not remember when exactly I painted this, but the date of the doodles on it, late 2007, suggets that I would have done it some time in 2008.

11x15" cold press, 2008