Take a look at this beautiful painting featuring the Roosevelt Island Tram crossing the East River next to the Queensboro Bridge with the NYC skyline in the background titled Evening – Roosevelt Island by the artist Thomas W. Schaller.
According to Mr Schaller’s You Tube Channel:
This is a start-to-finish watercolor painting demonstration recorded in real-time. In this video, I cover intention, composition, values – as well as interpretation, design, formatting, drawing, sketching, and perspective, etc.The emphasis here is simplification of a seemingly complex urban scene. The scene depicts an evening view of the Manhattan skyline as seen from Roosevelt Island. The 59th Street Bridge is featured, but light and context are the real stars of this show.
According to Mr Schaller’s web site:
Thomas W. Schaller is an award-winning artist, architect, and author based in New York City. He is the recipient of the The Arthur Ross Award in Fine Arts 2024, by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, NYC. He also received the 2024 Raphael Award, a Graham Foundation Grant , and is a two-time recipient of the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize.
He has authored three books; the best-selling, and AIA award winner, Architecture in Watercolor (VNR – McGraw Hill) The Art of Architectural Drawing (J.Wiley and Sons), and Thomas W. Schaller, Architect of Light : Watercolor Paintings by a Master – a retrospective of his artwork released by North Light Books / F+W Media and now Penguin / Random House, NYC in 2018. His latest book, The Creative Eye will be published by Rockport/Quarto Press in 2027. He is in demand worldwide as a speaker, exhibitor, author, instructor, and juror. Artist Network Television has produced two best-selling series of instructional Videos and DVDs of his technique.
More info on Mr Schaller available at his website and Instagram page.