A flat expanse of turquoise sea fills the frame above a pale coral limestone arch, with a small tide pool caught in the rocks and a tiny figure in red at the lower right

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The Natural Bridge

Medium Watercolor and graphite on wove paper

Paper 300 lb cold-press cotton

Size 14½ × 21 in

Painted 2025

Most of this painting is one thing: the sea, laid down in three passes and left alone while it dried in the sun. Everything depends on that field of turquoise staying quiet. The tide pool in the rocks is the same blue, one shade deeper: a little echo of the ocean, caught and held. There is a figure in red down in the corner for scale, the way there always seems to be someone in red when you need them.

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Placeholder artwork: “Natural Bridge, Bermuda (ca. 1901)” by Winslow Homer, public domain via The Met.