Tag: beach paintings

Pacific Ocean VII, VIII, IX

These paintings only show on my blog because I can’t remember how to get more than a handful of paintings to appear on the store part of my website. You may call or email or text if you’d like to buy any of these. Use the contact button on my website, because if I type the info in here, the cyberjerks might harass me.

Pacific Ocean VII, oil on board, 5×7”, $100

Pacific Ocean VIII, oil on board, 5×7”, $100

Pacific Ocean IX, 5×7”, oil on board, $100

Painting these is almost just as much fun as drawing with pencil, especially when I get to the third pass over the painting, where I get to draw with my paintbrush.

P.S. There is sales tax if you live in California. Figure in $8, and I’ll pay the postage.

Emerging Favorite Subject Matter

After spending a week doing plein air paintings at the beach in October, I could not wait to get home where I could paint waves and the ocean in my painting workshop, where the waves were frozen in motion on photographs. I love those blues and teals and greens and splashing whites, and I wanted to capture that in over-the-top detail.

“Over-the-top” hasn’t quite happened, but I am pretty happy so far. I’ve shown you Pacific Ocean I, II, III, and now it is time for IV, V, and VI.

Pacific Ocean IV, oil on board, 5×7”, $100 (yeppers, raised my price)

Pacific Ocean V, 5×7”, oil on board, $100

Pacific Ocean VI, 5×7”, oil on board, $100

A friend knows someone with a store somewhere in a town on the California coastline, and she is SURE the paintings will sell there. The store has very limited shelf space, so instead of putting the paintings on little easels like I had envisioned, she said they will need to hang.

That took some searching, but I eventually found something. The choices were to buy a package of 2 for maybe $4, or a package of 100 for $8. After a brief struggle between the frugal part of my brain against the side that doesn’t want to own extra stuff, I ordered 100.

See what is meant by “board”? It is actually named “Gessobord”.

Pacific Ocean VII, VIII, and IX are wet at the time of this writing.

Once again, I am counting my chickens before they hatch, which might be my strongest talent.

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This, That, and Something Else

This…

… is in bloom in my yard in January. They are called “paperwhites” and are very fragrant.

That…

… was completely blocking everything in the driveway one day. My neighbor is an outstanding tree service guy, and it was time to do some serious tree trimming on our property. (Not going to plug his business for him because he doesn’t have a website and doesn’t want jobs outside of the area.) I didn’t watch him and his crew do their interesting and skilled work because I was doing a year’s worth of bookkeeping in preparation for taxes. Ugh. That again. (year after year after year after . . .)

Something Else

What is this? Gessobord is a smooth surface on which to do very detailed oil paintings.

After my week in Monterey, I wasn’t convinced that plein air painting is for me. (Still not convinced.) However, I was convinced that I love the beach (this is not news), that I really love mixing these colors, and that I want to do some very detailed paintings of the waves. This means studio paintings from photos, because you may have noticed that those waves will NOT hold still.

First, a thin layer to cover the surface and establish where things will go. Just the opportunity to use non-mountain, non-citrus colors thrills my little heart.