Drawing on paper

Signed on the front.

Much of my childhood spent travelling to and from our relatives in Queensland in the January sun, pitiless blue sky above, endless scrub and saltbush as far as we could see and the road ahead stretching to the far horizon, punctuated by the occasional sign and dead kangaroo, while white guideposts flip past the window in a never ending stream.
Vinyl seats and hot metal seatbelt buckles.
No air-conditioning.
Stop for petrol and lunch.
To an adult - a day of driving.
For a child - an eternity of mindless monotony.

Indebted to Geoffery Smart for design idea based on golden ratio (Cahill Expressway), Maximillian Luce and Degas for technique. Executed by building layers of colour marks, fixing between layers, no smudging so colours mix optically in pointillist style to create a sense of movement, with the terracotta paper colour showing through to provide unity, create shimmer and life against the blue of the sky, and support the deep red of the desert sand.