Painted:
May 20, 2010
6:00 pm
Painted on location, Goat Rock Beach, Jenner, California
Painted during week-long Sonoma Plein Air event.
Very windy.
Loud crashing surf.
My son gathered rocks and shells while I painted.
Water can be tricky to paint. It is constantly moving and changing. The trick is to observe the reoccuring patterns and paint that. Don't try to capture a freeze frame rendering. You want the water to look as if it is moving. Once again, the key is observation.
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This is the best painting on your whole site! Love it. Composition is solid and color is perfect. I need to grab my wind breaker. The feel from it is amazing. I just returned from the Oregon Coast where it was blowing like the dickens and this captures that feeling as well as the wet moisture in the air. Great, just great.