This is one of the pieces stemming from my series of sunburn sketches. I wanted to make a representational piece of the beach without really showing anything at all. I took the colors and didn't really link them to line, form or even the barriers of their own physical being, making a sort of "impression" of the overall appearance of the beach, not the specific beach-goers. Almost like a photograph with the shutter left open. You don't get the vibrant, punchy and energetic pops of color that some objects on the beach actually had, but, a more relaxing, semi-cloudy landscape. Yes the sun was out and shining fully, but the day was relaxed, the beach spacious and the feeling subdued. There weren't a hundred kids screaming, a bunch of college kids drinking, or massive games of pickup football, instead the people were just lounging, enjoying the sun, and enjoying the outside for what it actually was, not what it allowed you to do. Granted that was the feeling from 100 feet up on a hill, looking down at the people below, but as (name that band) once said, "everything looks perfect from far away." I think I'm fine up here for now.
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