This started out as a different idea but morphed into this, a fusion of my love of Orientalism with Fantasy/Science Fiction. The foreground references my collection of vintage Orientalist postcards of the 1920s/30s and the paintings of Hermann Corrodi and the background is a futuristic city with architecture referencing Ancient Egypt on a hot late evening/dusk. Maybe this is the Heliopolis district of Cairo sometime in the future....
The painting took a bit longer because I changed my mind about the colours and lighting from more of an evening painting with blues and violets and silhouetted buildings to an earlier time in the late afternoon with all the buildings picking up more of the dying light - this meant basically that I had to put a lot more detail into the buildings than originally planned.
Oil on canvas 31 1/2" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in earlier posts on this blog.
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