What was my new year's resolution? No more doodles? Certainly not, there have been plenty of doodles in the recent lab book. The books are numbered consecutively from when I started doing research in 1997, so that makes 23 books worth of science and some art. Aside from the pandemic, 2020 was rife with protests over social issues such as black lives matter. The painting captures some of the protest idea, it depicts protestors holding signs and a banner, and surrounded by a plethora of doodles. This painting is called a study because I might make a larger more planned out version later this year. It was done on the last of the d'Arches paper that had some issues with it, the colours tend to fade out so I really used strong colours to compensate. On a molecular level, watercolour paper is like a sponge, the pigment will travel into it loosing a bit of intensity along the way. A thin fatty substance called 'sizing' prevents the pigment from going to far into the paper, meaning that it sits nearer the surface and looks brighter as a result.
Lab Book #23: No More Doodles Study, 9 x 12" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2665a)
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