Brilliant Dawning of a new Day.

Brilliant Dawning of a new Day.  I painted this for my Dear Wife she needed a  better view when on the treadmill .   Some is from reference and he rest is ad lib  .   I am happy with it whats even better My better Half is happy with it. Running down the dock is better than running at an interior wall.

This is an acrylic on 16 x 20 gallery wrapped canvas .

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More Watercolors

I have a couple more watercolors to post today . I am enjoying them. I have some acrylics painted and more watercolors but need to get a good photograph of them.

These two are 9X12 on watercolor paper .

Sanddunes by the Sea

I really enjoyed doing this . I know nothing about the location of this reference  photograph . It was a monthly  challenge  on one of the sub forums of the web site wetcanvas.com . When I see this I want to go play on the beach. It kinda reminds me of St.Padre Island in Texas. 

 

I finished this in the end of 2012 November  or December . This is 9x12 on a grey colorfix paper  . I used some nupastels , Blick soft pastels, art spectrum, Sennelier, pastel pencils ,and some Schmincke.

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Here is another pastel this is a sunset on the Oregon coast  .  I don't recall where the reference  photograph came from but said it was the Oregon coast .  The light and shadows with the interesting reflections  just caught my eye. I had to try to recreate it in pastels. There something  special  sitting on the beach watching  the sun go down drinking a glass of wine and eating a picnic of  dried sausages, cheeses bread with friends  or loved ones looking at a scene  like this watching the sun go down listening to the surf. This reference reminded me of a vacation picnic  with a similar view and similar sunset.

 

This is on  color fix paper made by art spectrum 9x12.  I used Nu-pastels, Blick brand soft pastels  Schmincke and Sennelier.