Two women in sun hats on a shopfront pavement

Gouache · 2026-09

Two women in sun hats on a shopfront pavement, 2026 — gouache painting by Ray Patrick

Architecture, Gouache

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Subject

Two women in sun hats walking a shopfront pavement with beach bags, a white car at the kerb and palms running away down the street.

Composition

The pavement runs from the lower right to the centre and the two figures walk along it away from the viewer; the shopfronts close the right edge in shadow and the road opens to the left.

Palette

A deep cobalt sky over pavement in cream and apricot. The shopfronts are plum and aubergine; the two hats are white, the bags vermilion and teal — the only saturated notes.

Handling

Flat opaque planes with square ends; the figures are four or five strokes each with no outline, and their shadows single violet pulls laid straight across the pavement.

Medium and support

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

Signature

Along the lower edge, raypatrick, in dark red over the pavement, letters widely spaced.