Painted in acrylic on board with an even airbrushed finish, every shape a clean-edged area of colour shading gently from a saturated mid to a lighter tint, the surface smooth and matte. Bright comic exaggeration: an enormous orange cartoon octopus fills the top half of the frame in forced perspective, its eyes big dots and circles and its arms curling out to both edges, while a tiny fishing boat carries two sailors in yellow oilskins waving their arms at the bottom edge. Every shape drawn round and springy, cheerful rather than frightening. Candy pink clouds behind it. Flat ultramarine sky, perfectly even. Orange, ultramarine, hot pink and lilac-white.