Sandpiper

Another beach painting...did this one in New England though. That's a real place...Horseneck Beach in MA, if you want to know.

Another fairy too. I'm not comfortable doing portraits so I add giant wings to my girls and presto: fairy art. That's actually based on a photo of myself at 17. I had neither wings nor pointy ears, but I often thought it did.

This is one of the few watercolors I "cheated" on...added acrylic paints to get the textured lighter colored grasses atop the darker dune grass. I usually get my lighter effects in my watercolor paintings with masking medium and a careful working-around my white space, but this needed more. So, in my book I call it "cheating".