This is exactly what the title says it is; an oil painting on a 200cm by 40cm Canvas. It was originally an unstretched roll of canvas, but since then it has been professionally mounted onto a flat board. This gives it strength, longevity and the abilty to be hung easily.

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It was painted in a free form doodle-like manner with no thought as to what the finished picture would look like. I would simply unroll some of it onto my kitchen table and then paint it. Then I would unroll some more and paint that. I continued in this manner until the entire thing was painted completely.

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As I was unrolling it I would tape the part that I'd unrolled to the wall at the side of my table (leaving the part I was still working on on the table in front of me). This was done to avoid having to roll the painted part back up again and risk damaging it. By the time I'd finished painting it, it had crept right up to the top of my wall next to the ceiling. This seems to be a fairly effective way of painting a long picture in a small kitchen.

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After it was completed, I left it hanging from my wall onto my table for a week until it was dry to the touch and then I got it mounted by a proffessional. He was a nice guy, but was keen to stress that I should leave some space around the edges for it to be stretched next time, as he found it difficult to mount it without losing the edges of the canvas. He managed to do a very good job (despite me not leaving any space around the edges) anyway however, and the finished mounted painting looks great (and has nothing missing from the edges). Seeing it completely flat makes it look much better than it did draped down from my kitchen wall.

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Below I have cut it up into sections on photoshop to make it easier to display in a wix gallery.