#78 – Majestic City Lights

This painting as one of my favourites completed to date. This piece features the Roman Forum in Italy. There are many different sources of light in this piece, which made it uniquely challenging when selecting and blending pigments. The sky is soft with fluid clouds detailed in layers of cerulean blue. The Forum is meticulously layered in warm shades ranging from cadmium orange, iron oxide brown, naples yellow all the way to soft pink. Carbon black and slate grey linework is used to chisel out the forms of the architecture.