Great Bay Shore

Another of the Gouache Corner photos that Hal Kirby posted, this one of the Great Bay. I cropped it, too, to take out  the tall trees and focus on the rocks and shadows on the sandy, rocky shore. I enjoyed sorting out the jumble of colors and shapes on the steep bank behind the boulders, letting the paint suggest to me what was there.

Riverside Beach

The photo I used for this painting had great big boulder in the lower right corner that I just couldn't make work compositionally, so I changed it into a riverside beach instead. I'm pleased with the look of the sand  under the water, a result of layering colors. The photo is Lenore's from WC, of the Poudre River (thanks, Lenore!)

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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.

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WASH--sold

ISLAND SEA

SENTINELS

SANDY SHORE--sold

WET SAND--sold

BEACH