10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Kauai
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” -Rabindranath Tagore
Snorkeler’s Cove
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Play this sound track: “Look mom, an eel!, a school of so many fish” Now roll the surf in the background. It was a beautiful morning.
Plein air – Kauai
Ironwood Afternoon
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Poipu Beach, Kauai, Hawaii – plein air
As my family fought the waves, I enjoyed the shade of this beautiful Ironwood tree.
Ocean Stirrings
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” -Robert Wyland
Launch on Every Wave
14″x11″ pastel on sanded paper
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” -Henry David Thoreau
Fine Wind for a Sail
24″x18″ pastel on sanded paper
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wave Watchers
I started with an acrylic under painting in 2 values. I scraped ochre, and violet thinly on with a palette knife, leaving the white canvas to make a third value. Then I mixed some big puddles of paint, and painted fast, waiting for the figures way down on the beach to get into position. I captured them with a few strokes each, cleaning up my mess using the negative space around them.
27 min sunset
I quickly spread a warm, orange-rose underpainting where I saw all the warms. I used acrylic and a palette knife, and was playing with the shape and design of the composition. I wished, as I was painting the sunset, I would have covered the whole canvas, or perhaps put a different color under the non-warm section because I love the way thick paint skips over the heavy textured canvas, and the white skips left something to be desired.
4:43 Sunset Gazing at Destin
10″ x 8″ oil on panel
I started with a panel primed in Naples yellow, and painted fast.
The water is warmer than the air, so it is fun to wade, but my wet feet feel really cold after the sun goes down, and the temps drop into the 40s.
Clouds Building, Crowds holding Strong
Beautiful day to watch the waves, and soak up some vitamin D, even if it is a bit cold for bathing.
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