Beach Paintings

Santa Barbara Palms oil on linen panel 8×6 in.

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Saturday morning was a rainy day in Santa Barbara… I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get out and paint. By noon the rain went away and left a very blue sky with some straggling clouds. My intention was to set up on the beach facing the ocean but as I was standing there I turned around and saw this scene. The lines of the palm tree tops were echoed in the mountains, the clouds and the ground plane where the ice plant met the sand.  I just couldn’t resist painting it. I am a sucker for this kind of composition, where the horizontal lines are the emphasis.