9 x 12
Oil on Birch Panel
Plein Air
Fred Saunders and I went outside last weekend to Point Comfort in Colerain, NC and setup on the beach that back looks the high cliffs towering over the Bertie County shoreline of the Chowan River before it empties into the Albemarle Sound. These cliffs are full of prehistoric conch shells and shark teeth as all of this area was once beneath an ocean. Not far from here in a freshly bedded tobacco field a farmer found a megalodon tooth, and when my kids were much younger, we would all climb these sand verticals and dig out some of the shells exposed on the edges.
This was a perfect day for plein air painting as a cool wind from the northeast was blowing down the river keeping the temperatures cool and the gnats and biting flies at bay. This was an early morning paint, so by the time we finished some midday clouds came in making for a great cloudscape, but neither one of us had time for another one.
