Painted digtally with Photoshop, Painter 12 and Sketchup using a Wacom tablet.

This piece was created as concept artwork for a film based off of the novel The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk.  The story is set in 2048, where an ecotopian San Francisco defends itself from invaders using nonviolence and magic.
“The city was a mosaic of jewel-like colors set in green, veined by streams and dotted with gleaming ponds and pools.  Seen from above, blocks of old row houses defined streets that no longer existed.  Instead, bicycles and electric carts and the occasional horse moved through a labyrinth of narrow walkways that snaked and twined through the green.  Above the rooftops, gondolas like gaily painted buckets swung from cables, skimming from hilltop to hilltop, moving between high towers where windspinners turned."

http://starhawk.org/writing/books/the-fifth-sacred-thing/
http://www.thefifthsacredthing.com