Colorado License Plate Design

My inspiration for this piece came from the view I see driving to school every morning, the mountains reflecting a bright violet from being illuminated by the rising sun. I knew I wanted to start off with a cool purple toned palette, partly taking inspiration from the “purple mountain majesties” line in America the Beautiful as it was originally written about Colorado’s mountains. I referenced other landscape art created in Illustrator, starting from the background layers, and slowly adding more and more detail to give dimension to the piece.