Creation's Creations

The naming of this painting was a lesson in using apostrophes, creations are being made by creation's products namely humans, who also invented religion and discovered DNA, the root source of evolution. Puzzled? So are the characters in the picture who huddle below, scientists and clerics shoulder to shoulder. A DNA double helix comes from heaven connecting to a cross, or is the cross sending the DNA up to heaven? It's one of those chicken-and-the-egg things, which came first?

This painting was done around 2008 shortly after I made a disastrous painting which had attempted to merge doodleism with a rolling ocean surf (not shown on the blog yet). I wanted the next one (which became Creation's Creations) to be the best painting ever, especially the technique. Every part of this painting is carefully executed, including the sky. Sunbeams penetrate the fluffy clouds illuminating everything in an ethereal glow. When painting clouds as such, there is little room for error, every mistake shows. I really think painting the sky and clouds here was one of the most terrifying things I have done, at least as terrifying as it can get when painting watercolours!

Note, I put an impression of my five fingerprints next to the top part of the coil quite on purpose. Though I may have been trying to cover up a mistake ; )

22x30" Watercolour 2008