Approaching The Citadel - stage 1

This one follows on from "Arrival of the Concubines" in that it will be a painting all about mood and atmosphere. Three camels and a couple of nomads head towards the walls of an imposing city, a mosque seems to float above it illuminated by a moon only seen in the reflection on a river running through the foreground. The painting is influenced by the work of Atkinson Grimshaw and Albert Goodwin and will be based on variations of greens and blues with maybe a touch of red orange light coming out of the gate in the city walls. This is my usual first stage of a mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Violet thinned with Liquin and turpentine applied with a rag over a simple "drawing" using a thin ox hair brush with the same colours.