BC Place

I shot the original photograph on a cold evening at False Creek — a long exposure that let the stadium’s cable-stayed roof read as a glowing orange crown over the water. Four years later I used the frame as a drafting reference, tracing the architecture and skyline by hand to build a wireframe in Adobe Illustrator. From that scaffolding I painted the final piece using the gradient-mesh tool, laying in colour one tent-pole, one reflection, one window at a time.

Scroll the hero above to move between the three states — the camera capture, the line that re-draws it, and the vector painting that follows.