Wild and Rocky

 

 

​Where the Oregon coastal mountain range meets the ocean,

the shoreline is wild, rocky, and extremely beautiful.

The occasional beach appears offering lovely sandy stretches.

The weather is often cloudy with gray skies and gusty winds

blowing the surf up and over the rocky headlands.

Creating misty layers that diminish into the clouds.

 

7" x 5" oil on canvas

 

available on DPW auction

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Colors of the Sea

 

The sea is not just blue or green or gray

but quite often many different colors.

Depending on shadows and light,

sand and seaweed,

sky, clouds and sunlight.

 

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MIsty Coast

 

 

​The great diversity of landscape along the Oregon coast

makes it a wonderful place to photograph and paint.

Here along the central coast, is a mosaic of beach grasses

 and shallow tide pools, nestled among the sand dunes.

A creek finds its way into the waters of the vast Pacific ocean.

 Low hanging clouds give a misty, watercolor effect to the horizon.

 

5" x 7" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

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Sunset Feast

 

 

The setting sun reflects

 its orange and golden colors

 in the wet sand and shallow waves

 that lap the shore,

 as a white heron finds an evening feast.

 

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas

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Storm Moving In

 

 

Painted for DPW's Stormy" weather challenge.

I love painting dramatic skies.

This challenge photo has it all: rain, wind, blowing clouds,

 even a smattering of sunlight reflected in the water and on the clouds.

I later added the lighthouse because I felt the little island

was telling me it wanted one.

 

 

8" x 10" oil on canvas panel

 

available on DPW auction

 

 

Rising Squall

Along the coast - especially during the winter,
sudden storms come up, with winds, waves and clouds.
Then, just as suddenly they can disappear.


6"x6" acrylic on linen paper

$25.