Watercolor-style painting of a river gorge

Inkscape and the Gimp were both used to achieve this watercolor-style painting of a river gorge.

Mountain Gorge

The water is still cold in the streams fed with snow-melt, like the one pictured below. The snow is just now diminishing above tree-line in the part of the West where this photo was taken.

Inkscape was used to highlight aspects of tracings of the photo.

The detailed shot above flows through the gorge pictured in the digital painting below (modeled on one of my photos).

The following inset shows the relative scale of the detail -- this mountain gorge is huge.