Mountain Landscape in Granulating Watercolor

Transform the uploaded reference photo into a hand-painted watercolor illustration. Use the supplied photograph as the authoritative source for subject structure and visible details. Work from a mountain landscape photograph. Keep the exact ridge silhouettes, horizon height, major rock formations, visible vegetation and weather character. Preserve the reference season and do not add a lake, cabin or snow. Use granulating earth and blue pigments for rock planes, letting texture settle naturally into cold-press paper. Separate foreground, middle distance and far peaks through progressively lighter, cooler washes. Reserve snow highlights only where snow exists in the reference. Follow the original landscape framing and make the main ridge the focal structure. Use a simple sky wash with cloud shapes grounded in the source. The result must read as a new watercolor painting on subtly textured cold-press paper, with translucent pigment, purposeful brushwork and varied edge softness, not a photograph with a texture overlay. Avoid oil-paint impasto, glossy 3D rendering, heavy cartoon outlines, decorative text, signatures and watermarks. Return a single finished illustration, not a before-and-after comparison, collage or framed mockup.