I'm still experimenting with painting offshore subjects in a Greek pottery style. I started painting this one the other day, showing some of the piping that snakes around everywhere on a deep water drillship.

I'm starting to settle into somewhat of a standard procedure painting the subject in black, then glazing over in orange. I'm finding that this gives a very interesting depth to the black parts, and is more forgiving if I need to work over the details of the black parts.

In my other oil field paintings, I've been very painstaking in the detail, but here I tried to leave it rougher, and more incoherent, hoping that this gives a more ancient feeling to the work.