Windswept Beach

This work is very loosely based on the same photograph I used for Long Beach, but it's much more expressionistic in nature. The surf is very heavily painted in impasto to give a sense of the strength and motion of the waves. The clouds are wisps moving quickly across the sky. This is a much more energetic work than Long Beach, which is has a sense of stillness, while in Windswept Beach the focus is on the sense of motion.

Windswept Beach, 2017, 16 x 20 Inches, Oil on Panel