After a bit of a break from painting including making a start on designing a new book of my work I am now back again with another Orientalist scene. I realised that I haven't done one of an Oriental garden which is surprising as it's a pretty obvious thing to do! It started out as a moonlit scene of a mosque behind some trees in an oasis but something bugged me about it and I left it a day to stew in my subconscious and then realised as usual over my breakfast coffee that it would be great as an Orientalist garden lit by moonlight. I am deliberately mixing Mughal and Moorish architectural styles to emphasise that this is Fantasy...
This is the first "drawing" up phase of the underpainting with a bit of tone added ready for the final tonal underpainting tomorrow. I used my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and applied with a small bristle and a half inch Flat brush.
Oil on linen 16" x 12".
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