Eritrea is a small African country located on the horn next to Ethiopia and Djibouti. Geographically it is situated at the end of the great African right valley on the coast line of the Red Sea which creates a wide variety of landscapes. Most scenes that I could find on the internet consisted of great areas of rolling hills textured with swirling earth and clay patterns. Many mountains had ancient terraces probably from some long ago mountain agriculture. This country would have been part of the Egyptian empire, but in recent times it was an Italian and then French colony until its relative independence in the 1960's.
I used several layers in this painting beginning with the relief of the hills, then the swirling earth patterns in abstract form, then the tree overlay. The tree trunks are actually purple but they turn out grey when overlapped with the brown. The sky is done with the Japanese style where there is a dark band across the top.
World Inspired Landscapes: Eritrea, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, March 2022 (No. 3006)
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