By George, I Think I've Got It!

So much of my life was spent near the ocean, on the ocean, and in the ocean, and it has been such a big part of my life that I want to keep my art as close to what I've always loved as possible.

Growing up my family visited Naples, Florida quite often. Fishing and swimming were what we did as a family. I recently came across this old photo of me and my sisters. My little sister was too young, but our mother loved to dress my other sister and I as twins, even though I am two years older than her.

 I decided to do a painting of us with our "cute" bathing caps and matching swim suits.

On one of our recent trips back to South Florida, my husband took this photo of a sand piper.

It became the inspiration for one of my beach scenes..

In fact, I feel so inspired by this type of work, that I am going to focus on it for most of my art pieces.