"Gatsby Looking Towards the Green Light"

"Gatsby Looking Towards the Green Light"

I have always wanted to recreate a scene from the "Great American Novel;" and The Great Gatsby was my favorite book in high school. This piece was made out of oil paint. A while after it was completed, I edited it a bit in Photoshop to give the buildings right angles, make the green light brighter yet fuzzier, etc.

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