Red Flag Day

Pastel on self-sanded Arches - 14x10

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After a bout with a bad cold, I'm back at my easel. Finished this painting today. Earlier this summer I took Patty's dad for an outing to visit some of the places we used to go to fish, and I took along my camera. This view of Cape San Blas was done from sketches and photographs of the beach. It was very windy, and the red flag was up.

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Dunes at St. Andrews State Park

Pastel on self-sanded Arches - 14x10

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After making a few very minor touches, I signed this piece and sprayed it with fixative. That is my way of saying "Il est fini!"

I am pleased with the way this worked, and if you read the previous posts, you can see it how the work progressed.

These dunes and the sugar-white sand of St. Andrews State Park with the jetties in the distance have been a continuing inspiration to me since I first saw them in 1967. I have drawn and painted them often before, but not with this kind of success!

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Dunes at St Andrews SP WIP C

Pastel on Sanded Arches - 14x10

I have "completed" the basic picture, but I'm going to let it stand for a few hours before I put my name on it and call it "fini!"

This has been a good learning experience for me, a refresher course in soft pastels. Best of all, I am pleased with the result.