The Zeppelin Menace

I suppose you could say this is a companion piece to my other recent world war one themed work  but this time on the home front. The Zeppelin raids must of been a scary and somewhat eerie experience when they first appeared over England in 1915. I wanted to try and capture some of this atmosphere with a painting depicting a sinister Zeppelin being tracked by searchlights.
On a serious note these  Zeppelin raids killed 557 and injured another 1,358 people. Though ultimately they did not succeed in their goal of destroying civilian morale. More information can be found here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_s….

It was hard to find good references, any photos are very old and black and white with little detail so I had to guess the colours, and I did my own thing with the rooftops. 

This is painted with acrylics on a 60 x 48 cm canvas frame. Its a rather tricky subject to photograph, this is currently the best I can do.

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