12″ x 9″ oil on linen, plein air, Corolla Sunrise

Doug Cooper and I are on a Red Red retreat doing some planning. Our friend Tim has a beach house in Corolla, NC that he lets us borrow as a way to get away from it all to do this planning. Thanks Tim, this is excellent. Anyway, we had a pretty nice day the first day we were here but we were both pretty tired as we didn’t get to the house until 3:30 AM due to flight delays. The second day was a bit colder but it was going to be sunny. I decided I was going to paint the sunrise. I have never done that before. Especially when I’m away like this as I generally like my sleep in the morning. And it was all I could do to drag myself out there. I’m glad I did. Although the moment of the sunrise that I wanted to paint was fleeting, it was beautiful. I am not sure that I did it justice but for my first sunrise, I am happy with it. The toughest thing for me was capturing the waves. I will get a better image of this when I get back home. We have had a good few days here for Red Red Design visioning as well.