Landscape Engineering Pillows

Dark Satanic Mills Whilst painting outside in the rain I added media/paint to the surface which then washed and spread and finally formed shapes which remained, these reminded me of smoke and dust and pollution rising from an Industrial factories from 1760 to the mid to late 1800's, hence the title. I added some impasto marks to represent, in a semi-abstract way, the factories themselves utilising dark compressed tight hues intersperced with minor flecks of colour thus giving a further perception of atmosphere and depth. This effect, painting technique, can only be achieved by saturating the media, in this case 300lb Saunders Waterford rough hand made water colour paper, which is resilient enough not to degrade yet slowly abs...

satellite towers of barragan, with kitsch pastel colors, one of the iconic monuments in Mexico by Luis Barragan, architectural illustration by Mexican artist lebeau

Oil on canvas

The Golden Gate Bridge spans the Golden Gate Strait between San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean. This suspension bridge is 1.7 miles long and 90 feet wide. The two towers reach 746 feet above the water.

Golden Gate Bridge in fog from Fort Point.

Curving lines of historic steel truss railway bridge leading across Tauranga harbour from city to Matapihi.

Humber Bridge On our way back from a shopping trip to Hull we stopped off at Hessle and took a little trip down the Humber to get a wide angle shot of this impressive feat of architecture. The sun was starting to set as you can see, this lights up the bridge and the shore of the river Humber. https://www.facebook.com/groups/PaulThompsonPhotography https://www.facebook.com/PaulThompsonPhotography2 https://www.instagram.com/paulthompsonphotography/ https://twitter.com/Paulthompson999 By Paul Thompson Photography

Abstract Architecture