Lili Wood, Illustrator, Paris

Description

This gouache painting by illustrator Lili Wood portrays a solitary figure standing at the edge of a high grassy cliff, gazing out toward a calm sea. Golden-yellow brushstrokes render the textured grass in the foreground and along the elevated headland, contrasting with the dark cliff edge. Above, an expansive sky filled with heavy, sweeping white clouds and deep blue washes dominates the upper composition. Three small dark birds soar in the distance beneath the turbulent cloud formation. The entire scene is captured in a vertical orientation with visible, painterly brush application.

Style

Artistic, Vertical, Warm, Nostalgic

Techniques

Gouache

Color

Background

Ocean

Context

Fine Art / Personal Project