Sunset at Brookings I (watercolor 5 x 7) $25.00
Last weekend I was in Brookings, Oregon for the Watercolor Society of Oregon’s Spring convention. We visit the coast often, but we rarely get so farther south than Florance. Brookings is on the California boarder and getting there from Salem efficiently requires dipping into northern California, hardly a hardship as the redwoods are on the boarder too.
The southern coast is a different. Brookings is a rocky rather than a sandy beach. The land drops off rapidly into the ocean there. The result is that the waves do not feel like them are above you as they do in Lincoln City, but they break larger closer in. I haven’t figured out how to paint the immediacy of Brookings breakers, but I’ll get it.
In the meantime, here are three postcard sized Brookings sunsets. I did the first on location and the other two at the gallery yesterday.
Sunset at Brookings II (watercolor 5 x 7) $25.00
The people in the third one are my husband and youngest daughter. It was one of the few times anyone stood still on the beach that evening. Stephen and the girls were much too busy skipping stones to stand still.
Sunset at Brookings III (watercolor 5 x 7) $25.00
These paintings are currently for sale on-line at my Etsy shop.
