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| Anastasia Dune Escape |
Line and Wash on paper, 7x10 inches
I often return to some of my favorite photographs because
they bring back memories that I can capture in a painting. The photographs that inspired this painting were
taken on a plein air outing to Anastasia State Park. The tallest dunes separate a broad expanse of
marsh and low dunes from the beach itself, and those dunes often look like a
wall holding me back. When I “escape” through
the dunes by the hidden path, I come out on the broad expanse flat beach, ocean,
and endless horizon.
As I look again at these beautiful dunes, I ask myself what
adventures wait for me when I escape the dunes to the beach beyond.
This sense of expectation is what I wanted to capture with
the solid growth of new sea oats and the suggestion of a white, sandy, path
through the dunes.
