Oregon Coast 2023
We love the Oregon coast. The beach is sandy and wide, perfect for long walks and playing fetch with Poppy! As usual, the weather was mostly cloudy, foggy, and damp.
Our next day provided a beautiful sunset with soft color diffused in a little mist.
One day we walked to the bay side of the park and watched the tide rise into the marshy shore. I love mixing carbazole violet with burnt sienna for that wet sand look. Payne’s grey for the clouds threatening rain.
Poppy and Bill relaxing at camp.
Mossy shore pines in the campground.
The super blue moon hanging like a lantern in the shore pines.
Our campsite was nestled into the undulating trunks and branches of the pine forest.
We went down the coast to see Twin Rocks. When we arrived there were no rocks! They were completely hidden by fog. So we sat, waiting, and after about half an hour they appeared…and disappeared- a couple of times!
We had another soft, misty sunset. The air was so moist that I couldn’t layer my watercolors at all - everything stayed wet and color soaked through the paper. But the effect was much like the atmosphere - undefined and dreamy.
Finally, the day we were leaving, we had a clear blue sky and sunshine!
Path through the shore grass. Peacock blue sky and carbozole violet/burnt sienna for the sand.
Blue ocean. Peacock blue for the sky, indanthrone blue in the water.
Have you sketched in watercolor at the beach? What did you find most difficult to deal with? Moisture? Wind? Sand? Something else?
