http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/liverpoolcityscape/index.aspx
As part of the Liverpool Capital of Culture celebrations and events Ben Johnson has created an 8ft by 16ft painting of Liverpool's cityscape. It has taken him and his 11 assistants three years to paint.
The 8ft by 16ft canvas includes several thousand individual buildings from a vantage point high above the River Mersey.
Johnson took over 3000 reference photographs, consulted architects and historians and produced thousands of detailed drawings before undertaking the painting.
This is not the first cityscape that Johnson has created having already created them for Jerusalem, Zürich, Hong Kong, Chicago and Paris.
The paintings are unbelievably detailed and earlier in the year you could go to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and watch Ben at work. The result now is fantastic and well worth seeing.
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