Seascapes – Margy Gates Art

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

These beautiful creatures speak for themselves. Original watercolor Blue Dolphins – 32″w x 20″h, $250 Blue Dolphins –

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

Sunsets in tropical places tend toward the spectacular and in this place, that is almost always true. The original image

We looked forward to the first day of the new millennium for a long time, and when it came, it

This painting is about movement and stability, hard and liquid, transparent and opaque. It also plays with putting the center

I am known for my island and reef paintings, hence the funny name. The rhythms are subtle, the waves break

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

Original watercolor Wave Games – 42″w x 20″h, $325 Wave Games – 32″w x 15″h, $185 Wave Games – 26″w

The Californian is a replica of a Tall Ship, one of a number that arrives in our harbor periodically. I

Snorkeling in the kelp forests of Santa Cruz Island, one sees sea lions playing, often with the diver, keeping an

A healthy coral reef is a painting challenge because it is composed, per square yard, of the most densely packed

I had some shells from Fiji on the windowsill facing the rising sun. I came back into the room early

The slow swaying of the kelp create an ever-changing landscape for the many fish of the California kelp garden. Original

This sight awaited me when I came to my studio early one morning. Only very large storms create waves inside

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

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

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

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