I thought I needed a bit of variety for the work going to IX this month (of course I am not attending now so all this work is already for sale) so I thought it would be nice to return to my occasional series "Vampires of Venice". The early ones in this series were basically monochromes but I am now painting them in colour albeit desaturated - this is to make them more realistic although I might return to the sepia photograph look in the future. San Polo is one of the districts (Sestiere) of Venice and have stayed in that area a couple of times over the years although never seen a vampire yet. I have always found Venice a mysterious city and love wandering around it at night and lends itself to the notion of lurking vampires, indeed there was a Klaus Kinski film of Vampires in Venice so it's not just me that has this notion. I like to have my vampires as Nosferatu as I think they are more creepy than the Hammer Horror ones.
I quite like the contrast between the soft background and the harder edge foreground so the next painting might well go in this direction....
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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