Thursday, May 03, 2012

My latest painting

"Our Paradise Beach"
16 x 20 acrylic on canvas
May/12

This is our wonderful little beach across the road we go swimming at.  I wanted to capture the rock balancing figures that so many people do...they're kind of like these mandalas people do that are meant to be temporary but give many people pleasure in the meantime.  One day, some kids made an octopus sand sculpture so I had to put that in.  I would have liked to have the kayakers, stand up paddlers, and rowers actually in the water doing their thing but that didn't work out so they are represented on the sand.  You have to be creative when you don't have traditional painting talent!