I'm thinking about this past September. Actually I have been thinking about it quite often because I enjoyed a wonderful afternoon on the beach at Lake Tahoe. I believe the name of the beach was Sand Harbor and it was simply breathtaking. My son and two of my daughter-laws, along with grand babies and my niece had a marvelous time soaking in the beauty.
We all had a good laugh because shortly after we arrived, every living creature seemed to want to steal our picnic lunch of sub sandwiches and make it there own. First, it was the squirrels, then the bees swarmed us and then finally came the sea gulls trying to snatch it right out of our hands. I had to give in and surrender a portion of my sandwich by throwing it off into the boulders to serve as a distraction to the bees while we tried to gobble down the remainder of our sandwiches.
The water at Tahoe is crystal clear and bright blue. It is by far the most beautiful lake I have ever seen. The sand is clean and bright and you are surrounded by gigantic boulders and majestic pine trees. As an artist, I find that words really fail to adequately describe the beauty and a better outlet for me is to grab my sketch book and then later try to relive those colors and sounds using my paint brush in my studio.
That is the blessing to me as an artist because most people are only left with photo to look at to remember but as a painter I actually get to revisit these experience in a deeper way so that my piece has life and energy to it. Thank you Lord for giving me the gift of art!
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| Quick study sketch |
My painting is still in progress. I have painted in my family on the
beach and out in the water but now I am considering making them just a
bit larger. I think I need to have them stand out more but I'm still in
the contemplative stage at this point in the painting where I have to stand back and study it to decide just what my next course of action will be.
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| Current Work in Progress on my easel of a beach scene at Lake Tahoe. |
Yesterday, I even planted some morning glory seeds in my big flower pot outside and added basil to my herb garden. Besides dirt under my nails, I'm finding my thumb to be green and I'm not referring to the "green thumb" you have when they say you are a gardener. No, I'm talking a literal GREEN THUMB from all the painting I have been doing this week.
Did you know that CHARTREUSE is the ETSY color of the year? I found that out last week and ever since then I have had a big pile of bright green paint on my palette. These little bees have been so much fun to paint. I started out with painting (3) 6 x 6 x 1.5 canvases with colorful abstract flowers and then adding bees. The green is just so alive and vibrant as a background color. Now I have moved onto cowbells and mini bees on 4 x 4 x 1.5 canvases.
