awesome job! did you paint on location?

In this case, no. But I'll be uploading more Damascus speedies that were a mixture of plein air and later refinement.

I tried plen air with a ds once, but the glare made it impossible to observe values correctly on the screen. How do you deal with this problem?

@EC: Finding a shady spot is obviously preferable, but the biggest help for me was working out before hand where to relatively colour pick my darks on the triangle. I did a lot of early experimenting at home by painting in my garden and hopping back inside regularly to note differences. After a while you should be able to "pick" fairly workable values. My location paints are still very dodgy - particularly concerning saturation, but who gives a shit when you can quickly and cleanly paint almost anywhere. :) I was thinking about creating a drw. canvas for pain air with about 6 general grayscale values down one side that I could become familiar with and (hopefully) attain closer results.

outstanding work as always. A double award for real life scene.

Beautiful, so much detail

Holy crap!!! Great!

Thanks, you're very helpful. And respect for your approach, seems really diligent!

WOW!!! :)

Brilliantly realized, as always.

Been there and this is amazingly detailed!! Superb!!

whaaaat this is amazing. i am amazed

wow, total awesome :D

do u know what the word in brown means it means bussnes

Thanks for the comment! There is not much to comment to this other than it is truly wonderful. I find it amazing how you work from just colour blobs to greatly detailed things. Really inspiring. Keep up the great work!

Bah, you are simply to good for .. I don´t know. Us? Me? Ok, you did not paint it on location:but how? From ref? From imagination? Mr. Know-It-All needs to tell you that the writing on the top/right looks more like Sanskrit than Arabic.

Partly from imagination and partly from photo reference. Not sure about the writing.