Tag Archives: Watercolor

I love the way the fading light of sunset plays with the reflections in the wet sand as it peaks between the rocks. The clouds, too, show the fading of the day yet hold the promise of tomorrow. The print should be collectible.

Cannon Beach Rocks
original Oregon watercolor
9″ x 12″

One of Oregon’s most popular beach spots. Although Cannon Beach’s Haystack Rock is about 1/3 the size of Pacific City’s Haystack Rock, it is MUCH closer to shore and of course Cannon Beach is much closer to Portland, making it more popular.

Headed through the surf, one of the last of a once-great fleet heads out toward haystack rock after launching from the beach at Cape Kiwanda.

Dory In Surf At Cape Kiwanda
Original Watercolor
9″ x 12″

You used to see a lot more of these when I was a kid… now, not so many. That’s the way of the world. We don’t want fisherman catching fish, we want corporate mega-farms making franken-fishes …I guess that’s how it is.

It’s the last place that commercial dory fishing is carried on in the traditional way: Launching boats from the beach, through the surf, and landing there again at the end of the day. This way of life is disappearing…

Cape Kiwanda Oregon Dory
(original watercolor painting)
9″ x 12″

It has its own place in history. Although lighthouses are considered old-fashioned and outmoded by todays uber technology, it only takes one good sunspot storm to make them needed again…

Umqua Lighthouse
(original Oregon watercolor painting)
9″ x 12″