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This is a road I take to get to my favorite beach near my home.  No, I don't get in the water there as it is too cold for me but to see the beautiful sunset from the cliff or just to walk or think, I like going there.  I have taken this road so many times I even feel I could drive with my eyes closed.  As you go downhill, you see the Pacific Ocean glisten just before the sunset.  It's so beautiful I was tempted to paint it numerous times before but I never actually did.  So for the first time I decided to do it.

Funny thing is, I thought it'd be easy to paint such a familiar route but it wasn't.  Call it the well-traveled road effect.  I suppose, as a driver, the road and the passing scenery became so routine for me that I stopped paying a lot of attention.  However, as a painter, I found many things that this road and the view from it presented to me that I did not see as a driver.  As I faced a blank sheet of paper, suddenly, this well-traveled route was a new, unfamiliar road for me.  You don't really know the subject until you actually paint it no matter how many times you've seen it.

This month I will have the pleasure of painting with participants of my 2-day workshop at the Saddleback Art League in Mission Viejo (Sept 28 & 29).  Contact the Saddleback Art League for registration as well as for info on my demo scheduled on Sept. 10.

Del Mar, California I

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Media: Original watercolor on paper
Image Size: 13 x 19 inches (33 x 48 cm)

Frame/Mat: No

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