November 18, ideas, ideas, ideas!

While it has been a busy time here, I have had fun painting along with my students. Last week we painted 'surfaces' - forest floor, beach sand, pebbles. I completed (more or less) my pebble painting, adding a sense of water and a leaf for contrast.

Watching one of the Monday students paint a beach with waves got me thinking that would be a nice subject for us to explore this week.  At left is the Ottawa river beach scene I painted last summer. I used a palette knife to scumble in the waves, lots of paint layers to enrich the surface.

So, let's go to the beach together. Add a sunset. Maybe a beached wine bottle... Hope you can come!