Venice

The oil painting "Venice" by Leslie Twiggs drew me in the moment I saw it. Its oils present a warm and silky texture. The color scheme moves from a mysteriously dark sky, to a lamp-lite canal, and then down to a murky, dark-blue water. Its theme is set in a water canal in Venice, Italy. Only occupied by a few boats, the city's canal is ominously empty. Using darker colors along the outsides of the painting, the artist is able to draw attention towards the canal's center, where the night lamps have been lite. These colors in the center are brightly shown. In hues of red and yellow the lamps' reflection in the water helps to widen your view of the city's canal.
This painting speaks peacefully of a clam summer night in a distant land.