Canon Beach Flower Garden

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Oil on Linen Panel

This flower garden is literally about one short block off the beach in Canon Beach, Oregon. My painting came out much gloomier than I had in mind. I took the photograph on a bright summer day. I still haven't gotten a thorough understanding of shadows and bright, though I do think I'm getting better. Yes, that is a forest with huge trees behind the flower garden just off the beach. 

Rock Water Tank

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Oil on Linen Panel

I do not know how old this water tank is, but I have never seen another one like it. There was surely a windmill beside it in the past, but it is not there now. It's near Arabella, NM. I've driven past it for nearly forty years and never noticed it until the day I took the photograph that I painted from.