gouache 9

Gouache · 2026-09

gouache 9, 2026 — gouache painting by Ray Patrick

Landscapes, Gouache

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Subject

A crossing on a suburban road in strong sun, a figure stepping onto it with two children waiting beyond, a stop sign at the right and a great dark tree behind.

Composition

The road runs across the lower third as a band of lavender and the figures stand on it at uneven intervals. The tree mass fills the upper right and is the darkest thing in the picture; the sign is the only hard vertical.

Palette

Cobalt and periwinkle sky against a tree in bottle green and near-black, with chartreuse where the light catches it. The road is lavender crossed by a cadmium yellow line; the sign is a single vermilion disc.

Handling

Flat opaque planes with square ends. The tree is built from separate loaded dabs with sky showing between them; the figures are three marks each and their shadows single violet pulls.

Medium and support

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

Signature

Lower left, raypatrick, in red over the road, letters touching.