Category: Art

View From Sadie’s Retreat in Lake Lure NC

Post author By Beclecto
Post date July 29, 2010

North Carolina is always alluring to Floridians. It beckons us with visions of mountain vistas, cool waterfalls, rushing rivers. Sounded like just the right trip. We searched online for cabins, and settled on our cabin “Sadie’s Retreat.” We left Lutz at 6 am, arriving just before the sun set over the mountains in full view from the front porch of our new home away from home. We were thrilled! We spent almost all evenings cooking on the grill and watching the sunset which inspired my vacation painting below.

Northcarolinavacationpainting — Porch View From Sadie's Retreat

Tags North Carolina, Tubing, vacation painting

Art Oregon Travel Uncategorized

Driftwood on the Oregon Coast

Post author By Beclecto
Post date April 28, 2010
2 Comments on Driftwood on the Oregon Coast

Driftwood makes me swoon. I know its weird maybe, but its me. Plentiful driftwood, like one finds on the beautiful Oregon coast sends me to another dimension. Driftwood, I believe, even inspires Mother Nature’s artistic spirit. She takes a raw log, a gnarly root and a bundle of branches or bark, bathes it with waves, polishes it with sand, then turns it out on a beach to let it bask in the sun to provide rich contrasts between light and dark.

Tags Oregon artists, oregon driftwood, Oregon State Parks

Art Travel

Painting on Vacation

Post author By Beclecto
Post date October 4, 2009

In the last 3 or 4 years, it seems that my artistic side has begged to emerge. I now have a secret project on every vacation: paint something. Usually a subject surrounds me and just begs me to paint it. On my Recent trip to Acadia National Park, it was the rocky coast of Maine. I found a perfect spot, on a rocky area right off the Shore Trail, and went to work on Great Head, right across a little Bay from where I was sitting on a big rock. The results I’m posting.
While amateur, like all my “works,” the elements and the essence of my experience, have been captured to my satisfaction and that’s my goal.

Comments Welcome! I want to eventually be able to have others post their vacation paintings as well. I started with watercolor pencils (easy to carry) sketched the scene with colors i saw, and then rendered it into a watercolor with brushes and water and addtional color when i returned home. Here it is!

Beclecto watercolor of Maine Vacation Painting — Beclecto Watercolor of Maine Vacation Painting