Rocks, Pebble Beach

Rocks, Pebble Beach

8x10 original oil painting

On Saturday I drove to Pebble Beach with a friend, Alice Weil, for a workshop at Brian Blood's studio.  After a night of freezing temperatures, the day was cold and sunny with some beautiful cloud formations.

The painting above is a study of the rocks and the ocean near Lover's Point. I completed the painting during a plein air workshop with Brian last summer.  The coastline in Pebble Beach is lined with dramatic cliffs.  The color of the ocean is almost unnatural looking with viridian greens and ultramarine blue. When painting the rocks I wanted to capture the reflection of the rocks in the ocean and the swirling motion of the water around the rocks.