Woolloomooloo Map - the Gunnery

An aerial view of Woolloomooloo, portal to a 3D virtualisation of the Gunnery that Marcus Gillezeau has another artist creating - details coming soon. In the meantime check out Jasper Cool's 7 minute Gunnery Sizzle on Vimeo, for a taste of the Gunnery artists community of 1985-91

 

 

the painting finished. 

This is a handheld shot from the middle of the flooding rain in Sydney when the light was dim, so it's maybe a bit blurry, and you can see the smear left across the bay by a drip falling between camera and canvas. When the rain finally stops in a day or 2 I'll reshoot more precisely

You can follow its creation in the images below

Still a lot of mistakes and bits to fix  or finish but I'll take a break for a bit to get a few other things done and defrag my brain a little

 

 

 

It looks almost done with the greens and other colours in the foliage brought in, and some light and shadow to give a bit of depth. A lot more repairs can be done yet, and some will,  "finishing it" is like iterating over Zeno's paradox. So after a bit of work on railway tracks and boats, I'll take a break for a few days
 

 

 

Adding green and highlighting light and dark, and making lots of repairs

 

 

 

 

All blocked in now, though with plenty of errors, whole blocks misplaced etc. (I'll leave it to others to catalogue them). And water in the harbour over the red mud.

 

 

 

There's a few completely empty blocks and missing lanes, and everything's still in unnatural colour but there's paint spread over most of the surface now of  kinda recognisble map

 

 

 

 

 

AThe beginnings of an aerial view of Woolloomooloo Bay centred on the Gunnery, the former artists squat where I started out. Its for an intro sequence to a Gunnery 3D virtualisation