From the Artist: Chicago, Illnois, in the United States of America is known as the "Windy City". Lake Michigan borders it and I tried to depict the "Lake Shore Drive" area as with looking off of Lake Michigan into the city. That is why you don't actually see the road area.
I made the waves of Lake Michigan choppy to give a sense that you would be in the water looking at the city from that vantage point. It's been so long since I have been to Chicago that I do apologize to anyone living there for the inaccuracies of the buildings etc. It was just done as a remembrance of it not as an actual depiction. It's supposed to be a pre-dusk scene thus some lights but not all of them are on in the buildings. The structure to the right of the scene is supposed to represent the airiness of a building going up in construction.
This was my first attempt at painting an "Urban City Landscape" so I have no idea if I succeeded in getting all of the elements into the painting or not.
From the Painting Guide: Whether the skyline looks like Chicago or not doesn't matter because you're not aiming at realism with this project but at conveying the sense of the city, a memory of its personality, and that's what you've got. I like the sense of water in the foreground, of wind whipping up the waves and continuing right across the sky. And the contrast between the busy foreground and the relatively calm but not totally texture-less sky. The subdued, slightly murky colors give it a strong sense of city haze at the end of the day.
I made the waves of Lake Michigan choppy to give a sense that you would be in the water looking at the city from that vantage point. It's been so long since I have been to Chicago that I do apologize to anyone living there for the inaccuracies of the buildings etc. It was just done as a remembrance of it not as an actual depiction. It's supposed to be a pre-dusk scene thus some lights but not all of them are on in the buildings. The structure to the right of the scene is supposed to represent the airiness of a building going up in construction.
This was my first attempt at painting an "Urban City Landscape" so I have no idea if I succeeded in getting all of the elements into the painting or not.
From the Painting Guide: Whether the skyline looks like Chicago or not doesn't matter because you're not aiming at realism with this project but at conveying the sense of the city, a memory of its personality, and that's what you've got. I like the sense of water in the foreground, of wind whipping up the waves and continuing right across the sky. And the contrast between the busy foreground and the relatively calm but not totally texture-less sky. The subdued, slightly murky colors give it a strong sense of city haze at the end of the day.