gouache 7 (2)

Gouache · 2026-09

gouache 7 (2), 2026 — gouache painting by Ray Patrick

Architecture, Gouache

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Subject

A palm seen from a shaded alley between two buildings, its trunk rising through the gap into a lit sky, with railings and steps at the foot.

Composition

Upright and built as a funnel: the two buildings lean in from the left and right edges and the sky is a tall wedge between them. The palm trunk runs the full height of that wedge.

Palette

Cadmium yellow on the lit wall at the right against plum and oxblood in the shadowed one at the left — the strongest warm-against-warm contrast in this group. The sky is lavender and cerulean; the palm a sap green.

Handling

Flat opaque planes with square ends, the architecture laid once and left. The trunks are two long parallel pulls and the railings single thin strokes drawn over dry paint.

Medium and support

Gouache on paper. Matte and opaque, with wide unpainted margins on all four sides.

Signature

Lower left, raypatrick, in dark brown over the path, letters touching.