tom lever blog

02 August 2015

Painting - Prague


It's done! After starting this painting in my first year of university, on the cardboard back of an old sketchpad, I have finally finished, or at least told myself to stop, this painting of a scene in Prague. Looking over Charles Bridge to the Cathedral, it is a view me and my girlfriend took the pleasure of taking in, in the summer of 2013. The photo it is based on is stolen from somewhere online (wikimedia).

It was a larger undertaking than I first imagined, my paintings prior to this have had a landscape/architectural focus, but have either been much simpler, or at a much larger scale. The painting is roughly A3, and fitting such a complex image onto such a small space ended up requiring a challenging amount of precision! I ended up using a wooden skewer to add some of the finer details.

A fairly complete collection of my paintings since 2012 can be found on my portfolio or on coroflot

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