Surfing Hippos

 

The initial sketches I made for the Gabon painting were a little wild. Here is a painting of the scene, some hippos are having fun on the beach splashing in the waves. The actual landscape element was a chocolaty brown river flowing into the turquoise sea which is suggested up to the right. But I found the idea of surfing hippos to be very amusing.

World Inspired Landscapes: Gabon, Surfing Hippos, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2022 (No.3009a)