Baker Beach/Sea Cliff Acrylic 11×14 Ala Prima, 10/24
Marina reminded me we used to go to this spot when Maizie was little. You actually park in the Sea Cliff neighborhood where there is a beach access trail. It leads you to the far western side of Baker Beach. It was an interesting day of painting and I was encouraged by a gang of elementary school aged kids who would stop over and check in with me every so often and tell me they liked it. One of them told me her dad can really draw and she is into experimenting with painting too (probably an 8-10 year old kid, so I was quite impressed). One of the neighbors who was one of the kids dad came up and showed me some old pics on his phone of this very “motif” circa turn of the 19th/20th century and 1950’s Baker Beach. A senior woman also came up to me and we chatted for a while and she gave me some ideas for possible music gigs, so it was a very social day of painting. As for the work, I think I found a good mixture for getting the ocean color. Ultra marine, quinacridone magenta cut with a lot of titanium white and from there add some raw umber which pulls green. This entire painting consists of those three colors plus Cyan for the sky and a little Sap Green for the plants. It’s all a work in progress but I’m picking up little methods every time.