Original artwork description:

I love painting the ocean views; and I take many trips to the California coast every year to paint small studies on location, which then become my reference material for larger studio paintings.
I love to drive along HWY 1 and discover the kind of views that make the California coastline famous – rocky reefs, rugged headlands, and the Pacific surf. I especially like to set-up my field easel at Rocky Point, one of the area’s many scenic sites of spectacular coastline.
To get a closer view of the surf and the coastline, I have to get to the edge of the cliff. It is a challenge, because I have to carry all my plein air equipment, while carefully stepping over and between abundant poison oak plants.
I like painting the backlit scenes – it gives me more interesting shadow patterns and some occasional highlights on the rocks edges.
My last visit there, I was painting in the afternoon, facing south. I loved the mystery of purplish-blue distant mountains; and looking down, I was intrigued by the interplay of cliffs reflections breaking on the waves and their shadows on the water. I use deliberate clearly visible short brush strokes for the cliffs, to highlight their roughness and sharp edges. Even though the closer cliffs are in shadow, there are many shades of different colors: reds, greens, purples, and blues. The color of water has a huge variety of blues with green, purple and turquoise tint.

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Materials used:

oil, linen, panel

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