Costa Rica is in Central America located mostly along the Pacific Ocean side. The country is rich with protected jungles and incredible wildlife. One of the biggest tourist areas in the region, Costa Rica boasts tree-top walkways, scuba diving and towering waterfalls. This is a quick preliminary painting I made to test out the composition and colour ideas on the watercolour paper pad. The sky is overcast but the water has a brilliant turquoise hue. The colour is due to the white moss that grows on the rocks on the riverbed, which reflects sun light in a peculiar way. Scientists were baffled by the coloured rivers of Costa Rica when they could not find any special chemicals in the water, in fact, the water was completely transparent when a sample was taken out for inspection. It is an optical illusion! This is the second colourful river I painted, the first one was in Colombia, that painting turned out to popular.
The painting shown here was my original idea, but somebody wanted to have a sloth or an orangutan in the painting so I recomposed the scene in my sketch book and will work on it this week. This weekend I have gone from mountains of snow, to lush jungle waterfalls.
World Inspired Landscapes: Costa Rica version 1, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, February 2022 (No. 2972a)
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