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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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California Port Hueneme pier watercolor painting Margy Gates

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January 12, 2013August 3, 2016

Olden Times

The history of Port Hueneme Pier is old, as California history goes. The schooners that plied the coast picking up

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Surfer wave watercolor painting Margy Gates

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January 12, 2013August 3, 2016

Surfer

Being a beach artist, I have done many wave paintings. This is the first one designed to feature a surfer.

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Beach people on sand watercolor painting Margy Gates

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August 10, 2012August 3, 2016

Local Folk

The view out my studio window can get very interesting on a holiday weekend. I was intrigued with the shape

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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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tropical island watercolor painting Margy Gates

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July 30, 2012August 3, 2016

Memories of a Tropical Morning

Tropical places have repeating themes — The soft foliage of banana trees, palms leaning into the tradewinds, people in bright

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