PEI has a lot of nice beaches especially along its North Shore between Cavendish and North Rustico, a small Acadian fishing village. In this painting you can see one of the many small peninsulas made from red clay and topped with scrub trees and pine trees. The sand on the beach was a fleshy beige due to mixtures of the red earth and crushed seashells. Bits of kelp added green to the beach.
Beach with kelp, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2024
Looking closer, the red clay cliffs were actively eroding. Mounds of earth and rocks of all sizes accumulate at the water line, as if the sea is eating the land. All of the sand bars are likely due to beach erosion. Despite all the evidence, it is a beautiful beach and made for some good swimming and lounging around time.
Red clay cliffs and beach, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2024
Here you see the sand dune give way to the red earth cliff. Amazingly, small delicate looking plants could grow in the sand. This beach stretched on for what must have been a kilometer.
Two toned dune, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2024
On the last day I reeled off several paintings of the beach using the observations and experience of the trip. In this one, I left white spaces for the sun-bleached wood and showed the various colours of rocks and plants. Some rocks were a greenish-grey, others eggshell white, with yet others red, blue or charcoal coloured. And there was the occasional hunk of charcoal too.
Sand dune with rocks and wood, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2024
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