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Urban Abstract · 2026
The City in Bloom Pastel Abstract Skyline of Skyscrapers in Impasto Art
Soaring towers dissolve into soft pink, blue and gold colour — the modern skyline reimagined not as steel and glass, but as something alive.
- Open edition, printed on demand by Pictorem.
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Available as Fine Art Prints
- Stretched canvas
- Acrylic
- Metal
- HD metal
- Wood print
- Paper prints
- Wall mural
- Framed print
- Digital download
This artwork is also available on Pictorem in other formats: · View in 3D · Design a multi-panel split canvas
- Medium
- Digital painting with impasto-effect
- Palette
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Collection
- Urban Abstract
Print details, materials and finishing
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Canvas print — as specified by Pictorem
- Material
- Poly-cotton blend at 410 g/m², 65% cotton and 35% polyester, matte and acid-free.
- Printing
- Pigment inkjet (giclée) with eight HP Vivera pigment inks, three of them black.
- Resolution
- Files are processed at 300 dpi.
- Depth
- Two wooden stretcher profiles: 3/4 inch, which sits closer to the wall, and 1.5 inch for more presence.
- Sides
- The picture can be carried around the sides, mirrored, or finished as a plain colour band.
- Framing
- A floating frame or a decorative moulding can be added when ordering.
- Hanging
- Delivered with hanging hardware, ready to hang.
- Longevity
- Pictorem states that its pigment inks resist fading for 100 years or more under normal display conditions.
Choosing what happens at the sides
A stretched print has four visible sides, and you decide what goes on them. When part of the picture matters right up to the border, choose the mirrored or plain finish so nothing is wrapped out of view.
- Picture carried round
- The picture continues onto the sides. A narrow band moves from the border onto the frame.
- Mirrored
- The border is flipped onto the sides, so nothing at the front is lost.
- Plain band
- The sides are a single colour and the picture stops at the front face.
Looking after it
- Dust with a dry, soft cloth. No cleaning products, no water.
- Keep out of direct sunlight and away from damp rooms.
- Hang with the hardware supplied rather than adhesive hooks.
Published by Pictorem · Pictorem canvas print page
When Concrete Learns to Soften
About this painting
Inspired by the dense vertical rhythm of a city skyline — think New York at its most iconic — this piece reimagines the skyscraper not as cold structure but as living color, its hard edges melting into pastel pinks, blues, and warm ochre. Thick, layered bands of colour stack upward like buildings themselves, each one carrying a different hue of imagined light. The palette is deliberately soft — rose, sky blue and gold where a real skyline would be steel and glass — so the whole city seems to bloom rather than loom. Up close the surface reads as a field of rich impasto-style ridges; from a distance the towers resolve into a bright, harmonious whole. On a wall it brings a modern, uplifting energy, a strong contemporary statement for a living room, office or hallway that wants colour without harshness. The City in Bloom asks a quiet question: what if the future of civilization wasn't harder and colder, but softer — a skyline finally allowed to bloom.
This blooming skyline was composed on computer — digital painting, its impasto-style surface AI-assisted.