This image, made after a rain in Channel Islands Harbor, won a First in peer judging for the Ventura County Maritime Museum’s 2005 Plein Air Painting exhibition. It is a show stopper in my gallery. I enjoyed playing with textures and reflections. There really was a bird on almost every rock.
Original watercolor
View from Channel Islands Park – 30″w x 22″h, $250 
View from Channel Islands Park – 22″w x 16″h, $170 
View from Channel Islands Park – 15″w x 11″h, $80 
View from Channel Islands Park – 10″w x 7″h, $35 
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