Seascapes

Maybe its all those marine biology classes when I was growing up - or maybe just the hypnotic magic of the sea, and the rhythmn of the waves...but I love painting the ocean, difficult as it is. Just wish the waves would sit still so I can get their portrait! I tend to do a lot of fog paintings, thanks to California's June Glooms, but occasionally the sun and my schedule come together...most of these are painted plein air.
 
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Laguna Beach Morning

A trip to Laguna to talk about pedestrian malls at a town hall meeting resulted in this brief sketch the following morning before I returned home. Plein air. 8 1/2" x 18 1/2"
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Broad Beach - Surf

These wonderful "teeth" are a part of the Broad Beach scene... 12" x 16" Contact Joyous Lake Gallery

   
       

I have painted at Leo Carillo Beach off and on since I began painting thirty years ago. It is always fascinating, and these massive rocks marching out to sea are particularly irresistible. 24" x 40" Contact Joyous Lake Gallery

   
       

Below the Pergola

Laguna Beach is a wonderful place to practice seascapes, even though everything has already been done many times by many painters, good and bad. I was painting away when this bather sat down in the perfect place for my composition. So he got jotted in. 11" x 13.5", SOLD

   
       

View from Weston Beach

Looking toward China Cove. Some paintings are just meant to be finished rough - this is one of them. A quick plein air sketch of the waves, tides, and the wonderful rocks of China Cove. 9" x 12" SOLD

   
       
Foggy Rocks, Leo Carillo Beach

I started roughing this scene in on a sunny morning at the beach, thinking that there seemed to be a lot of moisture in the air. It was beautiful, luminous... 15 minutes later, that haze had coalesced into a dense fog, and the distant row of rocks was gone, the second row only ghosts in my memory. Fog or not, this scene remains one of my favorite Malibu scenes. Plein air.
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Gwen Meyer Pentecost, Artist

Landscape Paintings of the Southwest

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