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Original artwork description:

The painting captures the fleeting magic of the last moments before sunset. Soft pink and golden tones glow at the horizon, while heavy dark-blue clouds descend, pressing the scene into near-night. In the foreground, silhouetted tree branches and leaves frame a single bright opening of light — the entrance to a grocery store parking lot. The details beyond are obscured, left to the imagination: perhaps a road, a car hurrying home before darkness fully arrives.

The perspective feels deeply personal, as if viewed from a balcony. It draws the viewer in: are you stepping outside to breathe in the cool evening air, lost in thought with a cigarette, or simply mesmerized by the drama of the sky — the battle between light and shadow, day and night, calm and storm?

This painting is more than an image; it’s an atmosphere — a moment of pause, reflection, and raw beauty in the everyday.

Materials used:

Oil

Tags:
#parking lot #siluettes #last sun #night balcony #dark urbanism 

The view from the balcony (2022) Oil painting
by Alexander Mikhaylov

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The painting captures the fleeting magic of the last moments before sunset. Soft pink and golden tones glow at the horizon, while heavy dark-blue clouds descend, pressing the scene into near-night. In the foreground, silhouetted tree branches and leaves frame a single bright opening of light — the entrance to a grocery store parking lot. The details beyond are obscured, left to the imagination: perhaps a road, a car hurrying home before darkness fully arrives.

The perspective feels deeply personal, as if viewed from a balcony. It draws the viewer in: are you stepping outside to breathe in the cool evening air, lost in thought with a cigarette, or simply mesmerized by the drama of the sky — the battle between light and shadow, day and night, calm and storm?

This painting is more than an image; it’s an atmosphere — a moment of pause, reflection, and raw beauty in the everyday.

Materials used:

Oil

Tags:
#parking lot #siluettes #last sun #night balcony #dark urbanism 
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Alexander Mikhailov, conceptual and digital artist, draws on his design experience. He uses oil and acrylic, experiments with different techniques and achieves depth and texture with brushes and palette knives.... Read more

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