Sunny Morning at the Beach.

I'm this week teaching at the beach again, the second class for 2017.

This is a view we sometimes get: the creamy whites...

Morning Brightness.

The mornings at the beach might be empty, sometimes boring, but just to see what you have, and to see that it's most often enough...

Lucky Moments at the Beach.

Sometimes when the weather changes from sunny to overcast you'll lose the painting.

But here, it worked together. A bit ...

Natural Tones.

Here I decided to not get the bright colored seawater in, instead, I was aiming for a more natural total.

SSU23-2015 Seascape Plein...

Evening Water Colors.

Here I worked fast to get that swift-moving evening light in. All of these fractions of warm colors towards the left, shade mov...

Water, Afternoon Light, and Shades of Trees.

Movement of light, figures, waves, or anything, and painting it from life:
I think whenever you have the...

Light Moves.

Everything moves, the people, the light, the water, waves, the colors, shades. I love this about painting pleinair.

Don't fear it. Embr...

Strong Backlight in the Afternoon.

Fascinating and hard to paint that afternoon harsh backlight.
But a pleasure when it works out!

Also I like the sk...

Shoreline and Backlight in Summer.

Proud of this one. When my kids would be on this one, I wouldn't have sold it :-)

When I paint these 'pastel' bac...

Towards evening the Shiny stuff happens!

Lucky moments: being there late at the beach and the kids are not 'whining enough to pack up'.. yet... and t...