⛱ Beach Beauty

034 Beach Beauty
(based on California Beaches poster by Maurice Logan)

Artists Notes:  I really enjoyed painting this one.  I was inspired by the Vintage Poster by Maurice Logan I found online so I painted my own version of it.  I love this style of art and it really seems to suit my style of working.

 CLICK HERE  to read how I did it.

🎶 Love is like a grain of Sand

  015 'Love is like a grain of sand' 

from the 1982 song by Fleetwood Mac,  oh Diane

 

So, when I listen to Fleetwood Mac (as I often do) a song from the1982 album 'Mirage' called 'Oh Diane' I imagine the singer to have had a recent relationship break up and he is walking alone along a quiet sandy beach, stopping every now and again to think of what might've been, and bending down to take a handful of sand and letting it slip easily through his fingers, he realises how easily Diane slipped away from him.

 

I have added the grains of sands and the 'Love'.  Now time to paint the stencilled lyric.

🏖 Out to Sea

013 Out to Sea

This project started out life as going to be another song lyric, 'Love is like a grain of Sand' from Fleetwood Mac's 1982 song  'oh Diane'  

This was to be the background and in the foreground, a hand and a mixture of sand and hearts slipping through the fingers as the next line of the song implies.  However this background was far too good in my opinion to cover up with a hand.  So I am keeping it like this.  

The Fleetwood Mac lyric, or another, will return at some point when I maybe have a better vision to accompany it.

Good call I believe.

 

⛵ Sea at Sunset

 

010 Sea at Sunset

I am going to do my own version of the picture shown on the Laptop that I found on the Pinterest website.

I had a canvas board that I yesterday painted with Magnolia emulsion.  I had previously (a couple of years ago) tried painting something purple on it.  I thought rather than waste it I could reuse it.

This photo was taken after painting the Sky and Sea.  Next is the Black bits, but I'm a little nervous that this bit could easily go wrong.

It is now complete.  This has to have been one of the easiest pictures to do.  I will get a better photo tomorrow in daylight.

Its not too bad at all.  I need to do more like this.  

When I showed my boys they were amazed that it took me just one hour to do this one.