Finished this piece just in time before the tide got me (but not before I got a sunburn!). This was one of those paintings where I hated it the whole way through, until suddenly at the end I liked it.
A bit of a unique situation of how this painting came to be, let's just say I felt a little more "watched" than normal, and you'll be able to see photos of me painting it in the summer issue of Carpinteria Magazine :)
I painted this the same morning as yesterdays painting. I usually wouldn't paint a bright sunny scene without any shadows to play with, but I decided to have a go at it anyway. My favorite part is the brushstrokes in the sand, and that deep teal color of the wave about to break.
And for some reason the camera didn't want to cooperate with me for this one, in person the sky is not that splotchy...
I don't usually like to paint outdoors, but recently I've been venturing out more and more, just to get away from the sound of the freeway (and freeway construction!) that plagues my current studio. Standing in the sand on an empty beach beats a noisy studio any day. And I'm having fun getting loose with these plein air paintings, I have a vision of what I'm striving for them to look like (and...
