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Destinations

specific locations, well-known or little-known places

Exploring the Salish Sea book artwork Margy Gates

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July 11, 2015September 1, 2015

Exploring the Salish Sea

Exploring the Salish Sea – book, 96 pages, $15.95  Exploring the Salish Sea

Exploring Southern California Beaches and Islands book artwork Margy Gates

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May 4, 2015September 1, 2015

Exploring Southern California’s Beaches and Islands

Exploring Southern California’s Beaches and Islands – book, 120 pages, $18.95 

Santa Cruz Channel Islands boat watercolor painting Margy Gates

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January 15, 2013August 3, 2016

Calm Harbor Santa Cruz Island

This portrait has a very exciting story behind it. Many came to the gallery in Channel Islands Harbor to hear me

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Surf Leo Carrillo Beach watercolor painting Margy Gates

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January 12, 2013August 3, 2016

Summer at Leo Carrillo

Commissioned for a surfer who surfed this beach for many years and wanted everything to be accurate about how he remembered

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Fiji Island Labasa watercolor painting Margy Gates

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January 12, 2013August 3, 2016

Road to Labasa

On a bus trip across central Fiji, a very fast sketch when the bus stopped, noting each mountain top had

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Channel Islands Harbor boats watercolor painting Margy Gates

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January 12, 2013August 3, 2016

View from Channel Islands Park

This image, made after a rain in Channel Islands Harbor, won a First in peer judging for the Ventura County

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Ojai watercolor painting Margy Gates

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January 12, 2013August 3, 2016

Ojai Rooftops

This image was painted on-location on a cliff in Ojai and won a First Award in a membership show at

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Monterey Bay boat watercolor painting Margy Gates

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September 24, 2012August 3, 2016

Orange Stripes

A few years ago when I was getting ready for a solo show at the Ventura County Maritime Museum, I

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Catalina Avalon boat watercolor painting Margy Gates

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August 10, 2012August 3, 2016

Lazy Afternoon at Avalon

This is one of my commissioned Boat Portrait Paintings. The owner wanted me to paint the Casino at Catalina Island

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Costa Rica beach coast watercolor painting Margy Gates

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August 4, 2012August 3, 2016

Holiday in Costa Rica

This watercolor, painted on location en plein air, involved the usual outdoor strategies. First, one finds a shady place to

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Sequoia National Forest watercolor painting Margy Gates

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August 4, 2012August 3, 2016

Summer in Sequoia

About the only thing moving in this lazy afternoon in Sequoia National Forest was the water skier making sharp turns

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Isla Mujeres Yucatan beach watercolor painting Margy Gates

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August 1, 2012August 3, 2016

Luki Mim

This is a close-up of a small beach on Isla Mujeres, Ycatan. It was a placid afternoon with a warm

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Kubulau Beach tropical island painting Margy Gates

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August 1, 2012August 3, 2016

Kubulau Beach

This amazing place has cool trade-winds and warm rains that make thing grow at a spectacular rate. Legend has it

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Channel Islands Anacapa Arch

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July 31, 2012August 3, 2016

Anacapa Arch III

I was interested in the patterns the birds carve in the air, swooping up and around the rock face, then

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Channel Islands Anacapa Arch

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July 31, 2012August 3, 2016

Anacapa Arch II

On a spectacular day when the energy from the storm off New Zealand was making waves off the southern coast

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channel islands anacapa arch

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July 31, 2012August 3, 2016

Anacapa Arch V

This is the fifth in a series of paintings of the Anacapa Arch, which explore the various moods and views

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Anacapa Arch Channel Islands National Park watercolor painting Margy Gates

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July 31, 2012August 3, 2016

Anacapa Arch

This was the first in a series of Anacapa Arch paintings. Anacapa is the first of four National Park islands

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