Assorted Gulls (watercolor 14 x 19) $225.00

I began working out a drawing for a long horizontal painting of Agate beach at sunset.  The light was punctuated by silhouetted sea gulls.  While working with my reference photos, I became fascinated by the way the sunset colored the white birds.  So I gave up the sunset painting and sketched out larger, versions of the seagulls instead. I like them and I may do some more seagull groups later. I may get back to that sunset too.

I painted the birds in first. I blended the colors on the birds primarily rather than mixing them on my palette.  The colors are cobalt blue, phthalo blue, quinacridone deep red rose, hansa yellow, and new gamgee.

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Beach Walk (watercolor 5 x 7) SOLD

This another painting of the beach at Brookings.

I just had to do one of the dogs.  Dogs and beaches  go together.  So much to see.  So much to smell.  So many, many other dogs.

This older dog wasn’t tugging too hard, but he was strongly encouraging his person to walk faster.  I want to see.  I want to run.  I want to go.  I want to do.

I used my typical beach palette: burnt sienna, raw sienna, phthalo blue, cobalt blue.  I masked the waves before painting to preserve the whites.  Painted last Wednesday at Art in the Valley, Corvallas, Oregon.

Three Dog Afternoon (5 x 7) SOLD

This little painting is of three dogs we watched playing on the beach last February. As far as I could tell they all belonged to different groups of people, but they were very happy to meet each other. I took a number of photos of them and will probably make a larger painting from one of those photos later. This little painting is just the right size for a postcard.

My favorite palette again: burnt sienna, cobalt blue and yellow ocher.