Another small painting heading for IX later this month ( I'm going to have to take a couple of small ones with me in my luggage as I have to send the main batch off pretty soon) this one is based on an Ancient Egyptian theme which I don't think I've painted before. This one somehow came out of the last painting "Flight From Atlantis" but I can't pinpoint why..
It is not based on a Midjourney piece this time and is kind of based around a memory of the amazing light in Egypt in the late afternoon when I was there in 1984. I wanted to try and get that incredibly warm light that happened around 5-6 in the afternoon and for some reason decided to paint some Ancient Egyptian buildings with a boat going by on the Nile. It is kind of meant to be Karnak but as it is a Fantasy painting after all, I have incorporated elements of buildings from a few different sites along with quite a lot of invented detail too. The barge is based on the one used in the Taylor/Burton film "Cleopatra". I was also trying to get some of the feel of Edwin Weeks' Orientalist paintings too but only partially got it, he was so good....
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting including the colours I used in previous posts on this blog.
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