When doing this aerial painting of Tufts University I had no photographs of the college campus from the sky. In order to create the image I took Google Earth images and pasted them together using Photoshop. In pencil I corrected the numerous differences in perspective vanishing points. I then took several hundred photographs of the buildings at eye level while visiting the campus. I used the photographs as reference to further add the details of the buildings as much as possible and to accurately depict the colors in the finished watercolor painting.

The final painting measured approximately 1200 mm wide.