This will probably be the last for a while in this "Arabian Night" series (although there might be another...) of essentially Orientalist nocturnes. This one is obviously The Sphinx in Gizeh, Egypt (yes not actually in Arabia again) and have chosen a view of it near to when Western archeologists first started to dig it out of the sands as a nod to my inspiration source, Western Orientalist paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There will be my customary glow from a fire at the bottom of the statue with the sky colours taken directly from another favourite painter of mine, Atkinson Grimshaw so this painting is basically Atkinson Grimshaw in Egypt....
This is the "drawing up" stage when I use a thin bristle brush to "draw up" the outlines using my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin. I then painted in some rough tone on the statue using the same mix. Tomorrow I complete the initial tonal underpainting....
Oil on linen 22" x 16"
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