83. HK Skyline (Urban 6)
50cm high x 70cm wide
Acrylic on deep edged canvas (54.5cm x 74,5cm framed)
2015
£250
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery "Urban and Rural" Sat 19th - Saturday 26th September 2015
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery "Members' Exhibition" Mon 18th October - Thursday 11th November 2021
Exhibited at "Creative Moments - and elbow grease" 18th - 25th November 2023
So, here is the final painting for the Urban and Rural exhibition. The original idea for the exhibition was to complete ten different Urban images and ten different rural ones. I composed all images some weeks previously and just re-visited each image in order as it was time to paint them. Although I liked this “slave to randomness” the final urban wall felt slightly unbalanced in a narrative sense. There were two representatives from Luton and two from Hong Kong. The uncompleted second row would have contained two London images and a Liverpool liver building in the mist piece (I may return to these at some future time). If I were asked to convey “Urban”, I would have liked to included some of the second row images.
It is under this slight misgiving that I painted this piece. It was always a bit of a challenge using both daytime reference and night-time to understand the real shapes hiding in the darkness. I also visited google to add some semi-made up logos. I was slightly rushing towards the end and never felt I quite found a consistent approach to the blur levels of the signage and lights. It is an image I wanted to paint for a while and yet I feel know link between this desire and the finished paintings. Maybe it needed more development time to discover which aspect of the skyline I wanted to portray. I do however enjoy the way different paint colours vary between matt and gloss. This means the burnt umber in the buildings tend towards a matt look while other areas are more gloss.
Not a euphoric conclusion to my “Urban and Rural” adventure but certainly a relief to have achieved so much. This was concluded just less than one week to the exhibition, with just enough time to paint sign-boards and print labels and graphics.
Acrylic on deep edged canvas (54.5cm x 74,5cm framed)
2015
£250
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery "Urban and Rural" Sat 19th - Saturday 26th September 2015
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery "Members' Exhibition" Mon 18th October - Thursday 11th November 2021
Exhibited at "Creative Moments - and elbow grease" 18th - 25th November 2023
So, here is the final painting for the Urban and Rural exhibition. The original idea for the exhibition was to complete ten different Urban images and ten different rural ones. I composed all images some weeks previously and just re-visited each image in order as it was time to paint them. Although I liked this “slave to randomness” the final urban wall felt slightly unbalanced in a narrative sense. There were two representatives from Luton and two from Hong Kong. The uncompleted second row would have contained two London images and a Liverpool liver building in the mist piece (I may return to these at some future time). If I were asked to convey “Urban”, I would have liked to included some of the second row images.
It is under this slight misgiving that I painted this piece. It was always a bit of a challenge using both daytime reference and night-time to understand the real shapes hiding in the darkness. I also visited google to add some semi-made up logos. I was slightly rushing towards the end and never felt I quite found a consistent approach to the blur levels of the signage and lights. It is an image I wanted to paint for a while and yet I feel know link between this desire and the finished paintings. Maybe it needed more development time to discover which aspect of the skyline I wanted to portray. I do however enjoy the way different paint colours vary between matt and gloss. This means the burnt umber in the buildings tend towards a matt look while other areas are more gloss.
Not a euphoric conclusion to my “Urban and Rural” adventure but certainly a relief to have achieved so much. This was concluded just less than one week to the exhibition, with just enough time to paint sign-boards and print labels and graphics.