Rock Pool 1
12″ x 12″
The lovely low tide pool contrasted nicely with the soft waves and morning mist beyond the rocks.
Mountain Wave
20″ x 16″
There is a place on the Coquille River jetty which is perfect for watching the king tide waves roll in. The waves rise like mountains right before they break and crash. I find myself using titanium white more sparingly and using the transparent beeswax/damar resin medium for the lighter areas.
Chrysoprase Wave
12″ x 12″
This painting is named after a chrysoprase stone which is a translucent light green-aqua-turquoise color similar to this sunlit wave. The winter king tides have been stirring up lots of thick froth to watch, photograph and then try to paint.
Mapua Waters 2
16″ x 12″ Mapua Waters 2
Water flowing over rocks is fascinating to watch. I repainted my Mapua Waters to put the focus more on the flowing water and less on the rocks beneath. Below is the first painting.
16″ x 12″ Mapua Waters
Watery Slice 2
16″ x 12″ Watery Slice 2
Moving water is often confusing with the reflections, distortions and transparencies. I reworked this to simplify the wave’s motion to make a more interesting composition. Below is what it looked like when first painted November, 2018.
16″ x 12″ Watery Slice
Wizard and Friend
12″ x 12″
The late afternoon sunlight lit up the waves as they passed by Bandon’s Wizard’s Hat and its big companion rock. I love catching the ocean swells before they break and turn to froth.
Watery Pastels 2
Watery Pastels 2, 20″ x 16″
This view is from the cliffs at Coquille Point in Bandon, Oregon, looking down at the beach rocks as the tide comes in to submerge them. The elevated view flattens the waves somewhat and paints the ocean in pastel colors reflected from the layers of mist and clouds.
This encaustic was originally painted in March of 2018. I recently reworked it and took a better photo of it. Below is the previous version.
Watery Pastels, 20″ x 16″
High Surf
12″ x 12″
The fall and winter storms at sea cause high surf and crashing waves against the huge rocks on the Oregon coast. This view is at Coquille Point where the waves crash around, between and sometimes even over the monolithic rock formations. For me this is perfect encaustic subject matter.
Peak Wave
20″ x 16″
This wave rolls in and forms a peak with glassy transparency before it breaks into bubbles and froth.
Beach Girl
20″ x 16″ Beach Girl, encaustic on encausticbord
I first painted this “Little Beach Girl” in 2013 in watercolor. I wanted to do it again in encaustics to better capture the wet reflections and sparkle of a tiny girl walking on the wet sand as the tide pulls out. As in the first painting, the shadows and reflections allude to what is outside of the picture frame. They both have the dark shadow of one of the monolithic rocks at Bandon, Oregon.
13″ x 10″ Little Beach Girl, watercolor on Yupo paper
