Beach Shack Buoys; 36x12” on 2” gallery-wrapped canvas
The long, narrow composition for this painting crops these colorful buoys in such a way that it gives a feeling of movement. The beach shack background color is an actual beach shack belonging to a local seafood restaurant (Ray’s Seafood) in Rye, NH. It is a wonderful cobalt-type blue that I love to see every time I go there and thought would make a great backdrop for this painting.
I decided to choose from my reference photos of buoys from NH and Maine and arrange them together into this composition. Doing this created some fun challenges for me, as I had to study the shape of every buoy and not only decide where every shadow would fall, but how neighboring colors would affect each shadow. I think one of my favorite parts of this painting is the color - not just the buoy colors, but the shadow colors.
This painting is headed for Small Wonder Gallery in Camden, Maine for the Spring Season.