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For slightly over a year or two, I’d walk in the KL streets at dusk, to shoot reference photographs for the cityscape paintings. I’d always start with Jalan Hang Lekiu. There’s a classic mix of Art Deco and colonial buildings on this particular street. A very romantic, nostalgic look. This is one of the first paintings that white as a color was used in my palette. This very bright blue / cerulean / teal colour too, is unique to this one painting – very seldom used again in my other cityscape paintings. In this work, I sought to simplify shapes. I had learned how to paint the colonial buildings for years through my work. And in the case of Hang Lekiu in Blue, I sought to maximise perspective with minimal information and the use of exaggerated values to create vanishing points and lost edges in the painting. I’d also just discovered turpentine washes and had built up layers of this wash on the right side, loosely, and added whites to the foreground, giving the work a shimmering glow, and light leak effects.
大约一两年左右，我总是在黄昏时走在吉隆坡的街道上，为城市风景画拍摄参考照片，我总是从 Jalan Hang Lekiu 开始，这条街上有装饰艺术风格和殖民时期建筑的经典组合，非常浪漫，怀旧的外观。这是我的调色板中第一批使用白色作为主色调的画作之一。这件作品也罕见地用到明亮的湖蓝色/天蓝色/青色，这些颜色在我的其他城市风景画中很少再次使用。这件作品有着相当模糊的建筑物形象，经过多年城市风景的创作，我已经非常熟悉如何绘制殖民风格的建筑物，而在这件作品里，我试图以最少的细节和夸张的数值来最大化透视图，创造出作品里的消失点和隐没的边缘。同时我开始尝试使用松节油水洗，在右侧松散地堆积了这种水洗层，我还在前景中添加了白色，使作品闪烁着光芒和漏光效果。
