On this page you can see a step-by-step movie of how the picture came about from start to finish.
The canvas is stretched over a handmade frame, then painted with gusso primer paint to prepare the canvas for painting on. Using diluted colour oil paint and white spirit I paint the outline of the image. The undercoat paint of the mountain is painted in to get a feel of depth, tone and shade. The sky is also added at this stage.
The tones are added in layers with different colours to build up the mountain range. I then scratch into the paint to give an abstract effect and then painstakingly paint all the different coloured dots in to represent the city lights below. Finally, I darken the foreground to give depth and a sense of looking down upon the city lights.
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