Hi all. Been checking out skyscraperpage.com for years and finally decided I needed to get on board.
I paint cityscapes. Have completed bout 30 different cities so and just thought I'd share my current (and probably most important to date) project which is a 4 x 8 foot painting of WTC-1 'Freedom Tower' under construction. Their will be plenty of paintings and images of One World Trade Center when it's done; so I thought it was most important to capture it 'alive' and under construction.
I visited New York in October 2010 to see how the construction was coming along at the WTC site and search for a vantage point to use to create a large painting. FYI: I'm a big fan of
George Bellows who created a really cool piece of Penn Station's excavation (below) in the early 1900s as most of my inspiration.
Looking for a good vantage point to capture this enormous undertaking and incredible logistical endeavor I came upon the
Club Quarters, World Trade Center whose small restaurant about 25 floors up had the perfect view to capture the gravity of it all.
*If you can stay there or sneak in for a drink I highly suggest!
Here's the sketch I created while sitting at a table during sunset:
(I think One World Trade Center was up to about 45 floors when I was there).
I'll update this thread as I progress with the study and larger painting.
Regards and thanks for following.