Friday, March 30, 2018

Big lift

My father Tom O'Driscoll just died so I've started this painting of some engineering works of his, a multi crane lift for an exhaust stack that he planned and directed for Simon/Carves on a BHP site in Whyalla around 1964





Tom on a swing as 15m pipe section dangles from 2 cranes behind him at a BHP site in Whyalla




The colour is still pretty flat, even if Whyalla is pretty much in the desert. I'm wondering whether to put dad in on a swing in the foreground




 

. Now there's a ground I might try and fit a portrait of him in - there's a nice shot of him on a swing around the same time

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