"Beach Colors"

Just got back from a week at Palm Beach.  We stay on Singer Island and just chill (not temperature wise) and soak up the sun.  I paint.  Yes, it is what I like to do.  It is not a job.  It is slightly anti-social, I will admit.  But it is not anymore anti-social than sitting there reading a book.  So the whole family on my side with my three brothers and their families hang out at the beach.  We have a tent that is about twenty years old.  (Really, no exaggeration.  I was looking at some old family vacation videos and saw my Dad getting it out its original box and my twenty years olds were new born babies.  AND I think we bought it at Walmart.  Can you imagine?)  Everyone brings chairs and extra umbrellas and we sit around and soak up the sun and have fun.  I painted a total of about twelve paintings which sounds like a lot, but my other choice was reading "Lonesome Dove" and I probably wouldn't have made much a dent in it.  

One of the hard things about painting at the beach is the big horizontal.  It is hard when you are sitting there looking out at the ocean to see anything but ocean.  The one above was done looking at the changing colors of the shore break right in front of me.  That's not easy because each wave is as different as a fingerprint.  So, you get one idea and then watch what the waves are doing give it a shot. 

Check out my website under the "Postcard" section to see more work from the week. 

Thanks for looking.