Redondo Beach Marina Boats, 2026 by Ray Patrick — original gouache painting — 2026.090.019

Subject

Three moored boats seen from the dock looking down, their bows toward the viewer, with masts rising behind and the far shore beyond the water.

Composition

Upright, with the boats stacked diagonally from the lower left to the centre right and the dock running out of the bottom corner. The masts are thin verticals that carry the eye up into a sky taking the upper half.

Palette

Periwinkle and violet in the sky and water, against white and cream hulls. A band of true cerulean marks the open water; the dock is ochre and its shadow deep blue.

Handling

The hulls are flat pale shapes with a single dark stroke beneath for the waterline, and almost no interior detail. The masts are drawn last as single thin pulls, white and black, over finished paint.

Medium and support

Gouache on paper. Matte and opaque. Unpainted margins all round.

Signature

Lower right, raypatrick, in dark red over the dock, letters touching.

From the artist:

It is so much fun to visit the Marina in Redondo Beach. The boats lined up with the skyline in the distance allow the imagination to roam. It is easy to romanticize the marina and once I almost bought a boat.