More Realistic Growth?

Another day another doodleism painting. Actually it took more than a day to finish it, that is probably the most common question I get... how long does it take? I always wondered what that question meant, how long does it take to do the painting, or how long does it take to learn to do the painting? I suppose the answers to those questions are, a) about 3 hours of painting time, and b) 23 years, and counting (!). I'll post a few more from 1989 when I started with the watercolour. Anyways, back to this painting, I am using doodles that span into my new position at Concordia, yes, even though I teach now I still find time to doodle, just not during class. The landscape element in the middle is a scene out the window of the room where I paint. The title refers to the element on the right, a cubism-like hand growing like a plant until it looks more like a real hand. Originally this was two doodles, one a geometric pattern that morphed into fire, and the other, a blob-hand that became a hyper realistic hand. These two doodles were fused in the painting.

Stylistically this painting builds on "The Paper Chase (No more outlines)" a doodleism painting I finished recently, the main concept is that there are no outlines used to establish the shapes. The other technical element was the quality of the finish... I went over all the edges and blemishes to produce the highest quality image I could.... mainly because, yes I admit it, I have been posting my own paintings as the background to my cell phone, and now I see the work magnified... I noticed that "Addictive Puzzle" has a puzzle piece that is not painted, it is just an outline- incidentally Addictive Puzzle turns out to be one of the "Fan Favorites"based on times viewed. My point is, that now I have to make art that stands up to the scrutiny of a highly magnified cell phone image. Oh, the technology! The technology!

22x 15" cold press 2012

PS you may wonder about the dimensions of the paintings... the full sheet is 22x30 inch, so when you cut it half it is 22x15"... when you cut that in half it is 11 x 15", and then 11x7.5", which explains most of my dimensions used. You can also cut it all into twelve  5x7" with six 5x8" which I use for landscapes often when travelling.