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This skinny watercolor is a remnant cut off from a larger landscape painting. I try to not let anything go to waste. Since the remnant lent itself to a vertical orientation I was searching for subjects which compositionally would complement this format. There is another painting at the top with two boys standing along the shoreline.
Last summer on vacation I took a photograph on a beach near Bath, Maine as the sun was fading. However, I did take some artistic license by adding two birds in the distance to convey some movement to the picture. Also, I changed the women's shirt from navy blue to white to increase the contrast between the figures.
After I finished this picture I realized it looks similar to a Steve Hanks watercolor. Steve is one of my favorite watercolor artists who painted many beach scenes amongst others along the Pacific Coast. He was a master of conveying the human figure and was an amazing draftsman. Unfortunately, he passed away recently.
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