The doodleism style typically follows a set of small drawings from my workplace notebooks and lab books, but in this case everything in the painting was conceived of as I painted. It actually took five months to complete this painting...which is longer than 'Construction at site 22, lab book#8' which took about 4 months. 'Construction' took so long due to the extreme amount of detail, but in this case the some slow progress was because of the challenge of coming up with original art on the spot, you sort of wait for the right time and feeling and then put the idea to paper. I also spent a lot of time on the quality of the finish, making sure the edges were well done and the washes smoothed out. The last thing I added was the trail of ants on the far left, partly to balance the composition there, and partly because I dropped some black paint there and had to hide it with something !
2014 (Mar-Jul) 44x30" watercolour ,
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