Paris the city of lights. I love Paris. Ever time I go, there is something new that I missed the time before.

As always, I will give five chances to win this original digital painting for free. See below.

I have painted many oil paintings of Paris but not many digital paintings so I thought why not another. The buildings in Paris are very distinctive. They have an elegance to them. I know that a designer planned out Paris as it was being built. But to keep to the wonderful elegance must have been excruciating hard. They did a great job at keeping everything in mode.

I always start with an under painting to keep everything tight. This helps me build the composition and keep things flowing in the painting. This is very important in my work. It does take a few drawings to get everything into place but the final painting is much stronger I believe. It also helps me work out any problems with the painting early on.

I try to get my composition and contrast in so when I lay in each layer it will be easier for me. I try to capture the feeling of Paris as I paint. So much detail should be lost into larger strokes. I believe that lost edges are the key to making a painting seem more real.

Trees are always fun because what is it but a few green scribbles over a dark shadow color. But it takes time to get the strokes right. Keeping them out of focus is the harder part. We like to paint something as real. Not out of focus.

Now I start laying in my first colors using layers and glazes. This helps me choose the color pallet for the painting. If I don't like the color, contrast, or hue I just adjust it. Much easier then oil painting

Some painters think sky's are easy. I have trouble with them. I over paint the sky's and have to go over them again to get them more in balance with the whole painting. We are all still learning, right? I try to keep my edges blurry and into the background. All in all I think it turned out. What do you think?

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As always I will give five chances to win this original digital painting for free. original digital painting for free. Signed by me Angeliki Z to the steemit community. Why give away my paintings? To give back to the steemit community that supports my posts. Just #upvote my post and leave a #comment on this post so I can let you know that you have won. That simple.

The 5 winners will be picked by random between each level of votes. So, the first painting will be picked between the first 1-10 commenters, second between 11-25 commenters, third between 26-50, the fourth between 51-100, and the fifth between 101-200 comments. Good luck.