Benin City

About this artwork

Using a 3d reference of the city I modelled in Blender, I painted scenes of the palace, city, market and palace gates. I derived alot of my inspiration from African and Ancient North African architecture as well as used historical patterns and motifs from the Benin Kingdom itself. Incorporating the bird and snake motifs, I placed a bird on the doors of the palace/ The King is placed on top a hill in the center of Benin city over the lower and middle class and kingdom soldiers on the outer rings