Funchal Madeira - An exercise in negative painting and perspective

Funchal, Madiera, 15" x 11".

For me, a serious bit of negative painting (painting around light areas with dark paint) and perspective.  On this mountainous island, here's a road going uphill, and taller buildings with their vanishing point disappearing into the distance.  The trickiest part of the painting was going around the white van and getting the shadows right.  Not sure if I needed that guy in the foreground - I drew in the outline of the foreground shadow and I think it needed something to connect it into the rest of the composition.