Working on my painting, ‘The Crowds of Kuala Lumpur’

Posted by Thompson Hall • 1 month ago

Thompson is painting his recent large canvas in the studio. He is adding the figures in black acrylic onto his chaotic and colourful swirling background. The figures are painted on black with a small brush. He is using his drawing to help with the details of the figures

I’m in the studio at ActionSpace today working on my latest painting based on my drawings of the crowds in Kuala Lumpur. These drawings were inspired by the images that Izzati’s sister, Armani sent me of videos of them out and about in Kuala Lumper. This made me think of comparing the crowds  there and in London, something I have been working on in recent drawings. I want to show the chaos and feeling of claustrophobia that crowds can create.