Apologies to Muslim scholars etc, the title is of my own invention, I know Jebel means mountain in Arabic but I think it can also mean rock... which the buildings stand on here. Originally I had this planned as the rock situated in a river situation with feluccas and palms etc but I got halfway through drawing it up yesterday and lost confidence in that idea so I stopped and decided to look at it again over my breakfast coffee today... which I did and changed my mind to having it by a sea or lakeshore.. I'm going for an Atkinson Grimshaw kind of moonlit sky and going to paint it in quite a limited palette.
This is the tonal underpainting stage which was first "drawn " up with a small bristle brush using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin, the tone was then added with a rag using the same colour mix.
Oil on linen 16" x 12".
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