kunanyi in cloud, from Sandy Bay

The mountain going in and out of cloud over the roofs of Sandy Bay, painted in one sitting before the cloud won.

Mountain

Work 02 kunanyi in cloud

kunanyi in cloud, from Sandy Bay

Year
2026
Medium
Watercolour on cold-pressed paper
Size
56 × 38 cm
Availability
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Most mornings the summit is there for ten minutes and gone for an hour. This was one of the ten. I laid the cloud in first, wet into wet, and let the mountain come up through it rather than paint it on top.

The roofs are a few marks of raw sienna and Payne's grey; the bay is the paper.

Work 02 kunanyi in cloud detail
Detail: the summit dissolving into the wash