Landscape 1

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Oil on canvas

Influence: Monet’s impression at sunrise.
High key, High contrast composition.
Composition gives impression of distant land (war-torn Beirut).
Reduced colour pallet. Showing impression of light - black is not used.
Used mainly blue to try and represent a sense of the cities tragic displacement.
Under paint has rectangles of blue shading at top left and bottom right quarter of the composition, allowing this colour to come through in the composition.