As I approach the half-way point of the World Inspired Landscapes series, it has never ceased to amaze me how much variety the world has. Indonesia is a highly populated island archipelago with brilliant turquoise waters and lush vegetation. These kinds of scenes are famous in Indonesia, many screen savers have a shot of the tall conical rocks covered in growth and casting shimmering green shadows. I have tried to avoid doing touristy designs or 'screen saver' designs but in this cased it seemed like a worthy challenge. In the first attempt I got the colours all wrong and the scene was lifeless. In this second try I adjusted the colours to have much more turquoise, blue and green, with warm yellow and red accents in the rocky structures. The foreground is just water, with suggestions of rocks underneath. For what must be a very dense and urbanized country, Indonesia still has some amazing vistas to behold.
World Inspired Landscapes: Indonesia v2, watercolour 10 x 11" cold press, April 2023 (No. 3589)
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