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| Anatomy of a Beach With its beautiful blues and off-whites, this painting captures a mid-Atlantic beach on a sunny day in abstract/realism. I created the original by masking areas with tape and painting the created spaces with wet-on-wet watercolor. The result is a scientist/artist's interpretation of "beach anatomy," the natural geology of a beach - from the berm (the debris and wet sand marking the high-water line) to the swash (the roiling waves advancing up the beach face and retreating) to the waves breaking onshore. Lines of breakers passing over several shallow sandbars just offshore and the horizon lie beyond. Integral to this scene is the perceived change in the sky from overhead puffy cotton-like cumulus clouds to the continuous cloud cover just above the line of steel gray water that creates the strong horizon line. The original watercolor is in a private collection but limited edition prints and note cards are available. |
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