The Road from Kaikoura

The finished article - I had to create a texture in the foreground, as the expanse of green didn't work on its own. The paper I used is a Cornwall 450g/m2 rough watercolour block from Hahnemuhle - 20x50cm:

Here is the original picture that inspired it. It was one I took from the campervan on the road from Kaikoura to Oamaru in 2008.

And here is the same picture, cropped.