Surfside Conversation

It’s been several weeks since I last posted a new painting, because I took two weeks to transition from our FL house to our NY house. I’m shocked it took so long, but there are so many little things to catch up on in this nomadic life.

So, I’m still working on some paintings from my Florida beach scenes, while I snap some images up north to paint this summer. This one is of two women in a conversation, with the gulf waters behind them. (In reality, they were on a crowded beach with a blue life guard tower behind them – see the original below.) I edited it heavily to simplify the image and tell the story of the coastal waters. But when I merged it with the water shot, I found the mother taking a photo of her daughter running into the surf. Notice that she has her iPhone raised about a foot and a half from her face; before, she would have been holding the camera up to her eye. Quite a change in less than a decade.

Here's the original photo...

Boy On A Butterfly Towel

I think this boy was about ten, though he looks older. He was dwarfed by the brilliant towel his mother, who is sitting next to him, draped over his chair. He was watching me take their picture behind those mature looking sunglasses. Some day soon, I’ll paint his mother, too.

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The Architects

These two girls on a beach on Cape Cod found their little brother’s stone structure and went to work rearranging the stones. (You can see him below, in my blog.) I loved the striped bathing suit on the standing girl, but had to strip away all the people on the beach behind her to make the pattern show up. 

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Father and Son in the Surf

This man was playing with his son on Elbow Beach in Aruba. His pockets are full of shells. I love the boy’s hat.

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Mother And Son in the Surf

Elbow Beach on Bermuda had few children when we visited, but this little boy had been playing in the surf until his Mother came down and started looking for shells. He had to see what she was doing. 

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Little Builder

On a beach on Cape Cod, I found this boy building a Stone Henge-like structure with the plentiful stones he found around the water’s edge. He was oblivious to me sitting only twenty feet away.

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Yoga Class

Early in the morning, people gather on Siesta Key Beach for free yoga classes, but this woman was already set up for a leisurely day. The sand on Siesta Key Beach is like raw sugar – fine, cool and glaringly white, so I have deliberately painted it with just a faint beige color.

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