As I haven't yet found a suitable location for my next Roadside America painting (another rainy one) I thought that I would get on with an Orientalist piece for my upcoming slot on Every Day Original - except that it will be postponed to possibly December at the earliest.
I am carrying on with this different way of painting skies and thought it would be nice to do a dawn/sunrise sky over my usual minarets etc. In the end I settled on Istanbul and this view of the European side of the city from the (third?) Galata Bridge with the Eminonu Mosque as the main feature. Seeing as it is a fantasy painting I have felt free to rearrange the architecture somewhat and have made the mosque higher off the ground than it is in real life. I originally planned it to be just a pink dawn sky but thankfully I decided to have an area of yellow light near the horizon which has gave it a lot more variety of colour than otherwise it would have had.
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting including what colours I used in previous posts on this blog.
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