Pilbara Boomtown

This work is based on footage made during an intense warm, tropical summer day in Onslow, Pilbara - West Australia. Onslow is a small port-/mining town at the Pilbara Coast. It's a small oasis in the middle of a desert like, desolate environment and part of a large Aboriginal community. Surrounded by massive infrastructural projects run by mining corporations. Compare it with a small, surreal sleeptown kind of paradise on Mars. I first made my underpainting in acrylic and Gesso. This to create a perfect, solid texture for the following layers. Then I started working on multiple layers of a combination of thick and thin traits of acrylic. Then finished with a slightly glossy varnish.