Headland stepping down to the sea
A headland seen from high ground, the land falling away to the left and stepping down to the sea on the right, with a pale road tracing the ridge.
A single strong diagonal runs from the lower left to the right edge and divides the picture: sage and blue-green slopes below it, ochre and violet cliffs above. The road carries the eye to the right and off the sheet.
Cool blues and violets against warm ochre and orange, with greens holding the two together. The cliff faces are the only hot notes and they sit exactly where the composition needs weight; the shadows are solved as blue and violet rather than as darkness.
Flat opaque planes laid side by side, each shape one decision, with very little blending. The brush marks stay visible as strokes and the colour is unmodulated within each patch, which is what gives it its poster-like clarity.
Gouache on paper. Uniformly matte with no gloss and no raised paint; the pale blues of the sky and surf sit over the darker blues as solid, slightly chalky bodies, which is the opacity that identifies the medium. Unpainted margins on all four sides, wider at the top and left, with a ragged right edge where the colour runs out.
Lower right, raypatrick, in a dry red-orange, letters spaced apart and running along the slope rather than sitting level.