Shoot it, Sketch it: Go, moon. Go!

Moon over Moorhouse – acrylic on watercolour paper, 205 x 255 mm, 2013
Moon over Moorhouse – acrylic on watercolour paper, 205 x 255 mm, 2013
Moon over Moorhouse, Christchurch, 2013
Moon over Moorhouse – Christchurch, 2013

The photographs were taken through our car’s dirty windscreen on my nothing-special cellphone (don’t worry, I wasn’t driving). Work in progress shown below.

Moon over Moorhouse, WIP – underpainting
Moon over Moorhouse, WIP – underpainting

9 thoughts on “Shoot it, Sketch it: Go, moon. Go!

  1. I find working from photos carries a risk, that of trying too faithfully to copy the image. You might so easily have left this as the underpainting. However, I really like the way you have developed that further to the final, more abstracted, more painterly, piece. Cool image.

  2. Very cool! Love the big round moon over the big round sign. (It took me a second to connect the title with the traffic lights! Duh! :-))

  3. Love how the sky really adds depth. Wildsherkin is right that it seems ‘magical’. Feels almost fairytale like to me.

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