Beach

Home is where your heart is, they say. I grew up on the beaches in California and this painting just has that warm, windy, summer day feeling I enjoyed at the beach. It's 2.5" x 3.5" in size, as usual, and is gouache on Bristol Vellum paper.

I'm re-posting it because I'll be donating all the proceeds to Samaritan's Purse Japan Relief, via the Daily Paintworks Japan Relief Challenge. Go take a look over there and browse through over 100 paintings (including mine, above, which has had a few bids placed on it already.)

You have a week to bid on the paintings through DPW's in-house auction site, and 100% of the proceeds are promised to various charities going to Japan. I love it when we can all give in order to benefit a need! Hurrah to the DPW group for this challenge.

To my artist friends, please also consider making a painting donation. The theme is "home" and can be any subject matter.

But above all, please keep the Japanese people in PRAYER! 

 

Summer Bay

I have a lot of 300 lb. cold press watercolor paper, so I've cut some up into ATC sizes to use for my little paintings. In this case I think the light texture really works to create the subtly sparkling water. I spent one summer living on the Gulf of Mexico, in Pensacola, Florida, when I was in my early 20s. Every day I'd don my swimwear and drive out to a softly sloping beach like this one, and play in the gentle waves all day until the daily thunderstorm rolled in. It was a delightful time in my life--sun, sand, snorkeling, boiled crab fresh from the traps(supplied with our apartment, of course.) This painting was done from a photograph in the Reference Image Library at Wet Canvas and is part of the monthly landscape challenge there.

Anybody want to go swimming?

$50.00

HIGH TIDE

ISLAND SEA

SENTINELS

SANDY SHORE--sold

WET SAND--sold

BEACH

BAY ROCKS