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Watercolor Gatehouse in Lily Moat

A watercolor painting depicts a medieval-style timber-framed gatehouse reflected in a still moat filled with lily pads and surrounded by dark, textured reeds.

A still moat below a gatehouse with lily pads on the surface, watercolour, wet-on-wet washes of indigo bleeding into olive, granulating pigment settling in the paper's tooth, bare white paper for the reflected sky, dry-brush reeds, the work filling the frame flat and square-on See more

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