Cinque Terre

2022

8” x 10”

Gouache and colored pencil on watercolor paper

As an item of personal work, I wanted to make this landscape dreamy and light with an implication of narrative with the building at the top of the cliff and the boat below. I took this image while on a family trip and was mesmerized by the rock formations and wanted to render them as lively as they appeared in reality. The gouache in the painting portion of this work was extremely watered down, creating translucent washes whose pigments settled irregularly. The colored pencil was then added to not only show the texture of the rock, but the way it wrapped around the form and was disrupted by greenery.