This article is abut Philadelphia skyline #039ZÂ Watercolor Painting At Sunset, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. This is my watercolor painting of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, skyline at sunset. The downtown of Philadephia offers one of the finest city centers in the country, for it has a vast array of hotels, shops, night clubs, and museums. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the finest art museums in the United States and has an encyclopedic scope of a collection. Prints & Scans Of This Watercolor #039Z ~ Order Here.
Key elements to this painting are as follows:
- The focus.
- Perspective.
- Time of day.
- The focus: The focus naturally is the downtown of Philadelphia, which boast one of the most robust skylines in the United States. I have carefully executed the delineation of the pen & ink detailing of the buildings that make up the skyline. I had to do enough line work to give credibility to the appearance of the structures, while at the same time not detail too much so as to let the watercolor have it’s turn at expressing the scene.
- Perspective: This scene is done in One Point Perspective, a method of drafting that has all the lines that are parallel to the picture plane vanish to the viewer eye on the horizon line. This perspective works will for this scene for the height of the buildings is more significant than their girth. Though you cannot directly see the vanishing points as you would on a drafting table or CAD screen, you can still understand the substance of the structures because of the One Point Perspective.
- Time of day: It is sunset and the beauty of the sun is now showing at it’s best. Directly below the skyscrapers is FDR Park with lush landscaping making for natural beauty in the heart of the city. To my delight is the Classical Gazebo in the bottom right corner of the painting. I have detailed the structure of the gazebo in such a way as to let is show off the Classical theme that the park offers. I am very pleased with the handling of the hatching for the shade and shadows of the building.
Philadelphia Skyline Watercolors Link
Philadelphia skyline watercolors