16 x 20

Oil on Canvas

The beach is a place most people love. It is bright and colorful and if you are there you are probably out of your day to day and in the vacation state of mind that is more exciting. I have done beach paintings my whole life because it is a go to when it is dreary outside to paint them to send myself there for however long. They have the gift of allowing my harder edged lighting that I prefer to work in most any scene. a brighter day where I can barely see, is my favorite day. All the gray days in between I deal with just to get the flowers watered and then take me back to sunshine with a few puffy clouds.

She is striped. And so is her chair and to be honest, I never can get enough stripes.