Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain

Watercolour and Digital Collage, 2019

Created and described by İpek Kay.

[river flowing and waves throughout]

A contemplative blue horse stands at the top and right edge of a strong rocky blue mountain, facing to the right, beneath a softly textured light pink sky. 

[horse footsteps]

The Blue Mountain, characterized by vertical rock formations rising from the bottom to just above the centre, is situated on the left side of the composition. 

The sea rises towards the right behind the mountain, dark blue, wavy and rippling gently. 

[lightly rippling breeze]

The blue horse, standing atop the mountain and facing towards the right, is young and slender-legged, with a mane and tail flowing to the left in the wind, adorned with a red hue.

[horse footsteps]

Above and to the left, five blue birds soar in the direction of the horse's rightward gaze. 

[birdsong]

Right beside the horse, in the upper right, three red clouds with watercolour paper texture linger in the sky. 

Just below the clouds, along the horizon in the distance, a blue origami paper boat carries fan-shaped green ginkgo biloba leaves, with raindrops from the clouds falling upon them. 

[soft raindrops]

Toward the front, on the right side of the image, three sparsely leaved trees stand side by side on dark blue, wavy-textured rocks. 

On the left side of the rocks, there are three dandelions, and on the right side there is one. The dandelions have blue stems of different heights, and their flowers have a spherical seed head consisting of dull pink-coloured seeds attached to fluffy parachutes. Trees on the rocks have grey, thin trunks, each bearing just one long, slender, fine-textured blue leaf reaching skyward. 

Three tiny houses are suspended from the trees with a string, hanging upside down, one on the left and two on the right, swaying in the wind. 

[heavy gusts of wind and rustling leaves]

These houses, smaller than the tree leaves, have dark brown roofs and light brown walls, each adorned with two white windows on just one side.

[soft raindrops]

Between the tree in the centre and the one on the right, a small brown rabbit rests, turned away from us in quiet repose, observing the small white fishes in the sea. 

[a fish jumping]

The rabbit, standing peacefully, listens to the environment with its ears pointed upwards.

 

At the bottom of the scene, white grass and tulip-shaped dark blue flowers stand prominently from left to right, spanning across the entire image. Above and to the right, two blue birds in the distance soar to the right. 

[birdsong]

The figures in the drawing convey the essence of the wind and a sense of reminiscence about memories left behind, carrying hope for future journeys.

[horse footsteps fade into the distance along with the ambience]