"Plein Air, Cambria" by Linda T Snider-Ward, Louisiana artist

Plein Air, Cambria was painted last fall in Cambria, CA, while meeting up with old friends. It was a wonderful feeling to sit on a big rock, listen to the ocean, and try painting what was in front of me. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and my Etsy shop

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oceans: sruble

This is a drawing of a lantern fish that I did for Ripple. It also works for the WaWe oceans prompt. Plus, it cracks me up. Hope it gives you a laugh too!

He's a fishy with a built in flashlight!

Portal to a paisley world - sruble

There's a world out there where everything is paisley, including the whales.

Paisley Whale #1

Paisley Whale #2

I made these digital prints, plus one of a whale from our world, for the Ripple Project (donated art is sold to help the animals in the gulf oil spill). Click here for more info or to purchase these images.

Portal to the Deep Blue Sea

To this day, nothing has driven me in my life and my work more than my love of the sea.

When I came to New York after graduating from Kahuku High School I couldn't sleep at night without the pounding of the waves on the sand. I longed for the Pacific the way I longed for my family. I am always homesick for the ocean.

Through every heart break, and every outside stress, through every personal and public tragedy I have faced, nothing ever heals me like the reassuring calm of the sea.

In all of this, I hurt to hurt the Ocean. I love the sea. I long for an end to the disaster in the gulf.

The oil spill's casualties are far reaching. We all need to do every little thing we can to protect our way of life and our sea life.

The mermaids are doing their fair share, it's up to us to do ours ;)

Play

This month has whizzed by with sick children and trying to keep up in the studio and everyday life! So, here is a painting I did a year or so ago. This is for the play week. "Building bridges". This is my two son's playing at the ocean.
Deb

Legend of the Selkies February post

Here is my watercolor "Legends of the Selkies" for the February monthly post. I really like the light that I have going on, on the rocks around her.
This is the best I could come up with, with only reading a little bit about this legend from the link provided. I hadn't heard of the story before. I'm glad to have had the oppurtunity to learn about them and to try my hand hand painting an illustration. It was a very good lesson!
I'm sorry, I wasn't able to do anything for the 'crowd' week. Life got in the way and I had worked up 4 or 5 other new paintings.
Thanks for looking,
Debbie