Aqua Alta
- Heavily textured acrylics on boxed canvas, painted with palette-knives
- 50cm x 70cm
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£180.00
- Around November, the rains
start to fall heavily on
Venice creating,
'Aqua-Alta' where Venice
floods. I have used very dull
and muted colours to show
the contrast a day like this
can make in Venice;
everything looks dark and
dull, with heavy, dark clouds
and black gondolas with no
lights reflected in them,
and dull, tall buildings
looking disapprovingly
on to the very wet scene
of the overloaded canal
coupled with torrential
showers. I used fine texture
to achieve this look, then
added the rain afterwards
with a special brush I made
for the job.