Thursday, 13 April 2023

Midnight Medina


 I am carrying on the general theme of nocturnes with a single light source that began in "The Sleeping City" series into a new series called "Arabian Night" of Orientalist paintings. Oddly enough though this painting also looks a bit like Venice at night, a subject that I have painted many times over the years and which I feel I need to return to... whether this series morphs into Venice is unclear at this point. 

This painting is based on a Midjourney piece but as you can see as I use Midjourney as a composition generator I have really only used the structure and lighting and everything else is redrawn/invented in terms of content. The Midjourney piece can be seen at the bottom of this post.

Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".

There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.

Midjourney


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