"Sunshine Breeze"

Tolowa Dunes has exceptional beauty mid day. I have taken the liberty to apply more warmth to this oil painting than the original photograph I took that day. The sky and ocean are, in reality, that blue but the sand wasn't really making the painting sparkle the way the sky did, so I upped the chroma and went with Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow Medium and white for the highlights and Gamblin Maganese Violet, Grumbacher Red, Cobalt Blue and white for the shadows in the sandy areas. The grasses were Cobalt Blue mixed with Sap Green for the darks and the lights were Cobalt Blue and Cadmium Yellow Light with Burnt Sienna in the warmer bases of the grasses. Sky and water are Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue and touch of Phalo Blue and white.

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Location: Crescent City, CA

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Comment by Jeri McDonald on June 28, 2013 at 5:14: Thanks everyone. At our gallery where we paint on Mondays, my fellow artists critique each others work after painting for the day. I brought this in and they had suggested I put more uneven grasses on the left of the dunes at the edge there. I did and I didn't like it anymore! Uggghhh!