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"Quiet Cove"

Some days are just so bright that if you are walking into the sun it’s blinding even with sun glasses.  I tried to capture that in this watercolor painting.  That’s not so easy you know.  We only have the whiteness of the paper to represent brightness. 

In order to add a little interest I included the old, decaying, abandoned boat, to add life, the seagulls, ever present on our northern beaches. 

I have struggled with a title.  After doing several versions, including one in oil paint, a patron chose her own title, “Quiet Cove”.  I decided that was as good as anything I had come up with so…