Deep Blue
3.75 x 4.625 inches. Hand embroidery on hand-painted silk.
I painted the background, and underpainted the water. You can see from the in-progress picture below that I also painted some of the left-hand edge of the spare silk a medium blue. I used some strands of that deeper blue for the hull of the distant sailing boat because I didn’t have any regular thread that was fine enough.
Early on in making this picture, I accidentally put a blob of “land” paint in the water. Uh-oh! I thought about inventing some more rocky outcrops to hide it, but instead I flipped the whole composition from left to right. That way, the blob became part of the land on the left and even I can’t find it any more.