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Tunnels

Looking at this drawing of Huinga Tunnel by Sir Tosswill Woollaston it struck me that they are quite a good thing to draw:

Right up my alley etc..

More arguments

This is one which I executed in paint in this abandoned painting -- a shitty effort:

Present (and future) supporting arguments..

A couple of sketches from some time back.

Working Title "SELF PORTRAIT AS DR. MANHATTAN ON MARS (After Dave Gibbons / Watchmen)"

A painting came out of those recent drawings. This is something I had been cooking in my head for quite a while but even so I was really unsure how to finalise the design. I've just glazed the 'sky' area & I might still do so for the "gaseous clouds" when they are dry. Probably gonna glaze the 'land' area as well, to knock the brushwork back a bit.

Really struggling with this one on consistency of mark-making across the entire picture plane...

EDIT: after a LOT of faffing around I gave up, and killed it (painted over.) Will attempt again some time.

Continuing to develop ideas for this new series..

Been developing ideas for a new series

Mostly this stuff is coming to me in visions and dreams...