City Skyline Panorama

About the work

Style

An impressionistic palette-knife cityscape verging on abstraction.

Medium

Oil or acrylic on canvas, applied with a knife.

Palette

A cobalt blue field lit by multicoloured window lights, with a band of acid yellow along the waterline.

Composition

A wide panorama built on a near-symmetrical horizontal mirror, with the skyline silhouette running across the centre.

Technique

Palette-knife broken colour, with vertical dragged strokes pulling the lights down into the reflection, and thick impasto throughout.

Mood

Energetic, glittering and urban.