FIELD NOTES / GIN / Western Africa
Guinea
Forest slopes & mountain grasslands.
START WITH A PLACE
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
Mount Nimba rises above the surrounding savannah at the meeting of Guinea, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire. Forested slopes give way to mountain grasslands, creating a sequence of distinct landscape textures.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in grain and rhythm.
Draw the transition from dense canopy to open ridge as bands of texture. Where does a gradual ecological change appear as a sharp visual edge?
An editorial observation prompt, grounded in the reference above.
WORKING COLOUR
A palette to begin with.
Five editorial tones for this surface family. Use them as a starting point for a study; they are not measured samples from the site.
Fibre paper#ece9dboklch(0.933 0.019 96.873)
Cut straw#c5b08aoklch(0.766 0.057 82.249)
Forest shade#4d7162oklch(0.517 0.048 166.710)
Thread ochre#bd8453oklch(0.660 0.096 60.682)
Grain ink#283630oklch(0.318 0.021 166.943)