This was a commission from a friend Maria Moreno. She sent the picture and I set to work, I just gave it to her as a surprise. She was having friends over for a BBQ, so i gift wrapped in and gave it to her. As usual you can get items with this image via pixels
Ocean Grove is my favorite Jersey Shore beaches. This is from a photo by a friend, Sherry Fieldhouse. She and several other of my friends run a Christian retreat house in a typical OG Victorian style house right by the beach. They get many OG sunrises. As usual you can buy items with this image from pixels.
Here's the painting
and here's the picture I used
Ocean Grove NJ is my favorite beach on the Jersey Shore. I love the Christian history and vibe of it and is one of the sources of my paintings. This one is inspired by a photo a friend Cheryl Scoles took from the balcony of the Ocean Grove Retreat Center. One of the landmarks of Ocean Grove the Cross on the beach by the Boardwalk Pavillion but is 100 yards or so south of the Retreat Center. So in the spirit of Bob Ross's credo of "You can do anything you want to do. This is your world" I relocated the view as if there was building with a porch behind the pavillion. I tried to include the beach snack shack. Not thoroughly happy with it the results but it's a nice scene. As usual
Facebook is full of many photos that can be used as subjects for paintings. Usually I ask permission to use is as I did in this case it was on the Laura Zamfirescu page. I like doing sunrises and sunsets and this was a massively orange picture. The photo image copies very different colorwise as toned down. It was vertical and I like doing horizontal so had to enlarge it a bit. As ususal, you can get items with this image on it via pixels
Here's my painting. I m calling it Sunrise Journey Begins
I'm still working on my ocean wave painting. This is from a combination of pictures from Facebook and other sources. As usual you can buy items with this image here from Pixels
In an effort to expand my artistic talents, I have been watching other artist's reels on Facebook showing how to paint waves, auroras and other subjects that I have not tried yet. This is my first attempt at doing waves. I think it's a good first attempt. I will attempting more in the future Pixels
Love sunsets and beaches. Bit together are a great thing. As usual you can buy items with image on them from zazzle
