South Beach

When my husband and I went to South Beach, Florida, a few years ago, I enjoyed the art decco architecture there. In an art gallery there, I discovered an artist by the name of Mark Rutkowski, who had done many watercolor paintings of the art decco architecture from South Beach. In many of his pieces, he featured not only a historic building, but a historic car. This painting is a copy of a postcard I bought while in South Beach, but not until I bought the book of Mark Rutkowski's work did I even consider doing such a painting.

Sunporch

This is a scene of the screened-in porch of the beach house we stay at in Charleston, South Carolina. Every afternoon I was attracted to the shadows on the furniture.

I decided to put the shadows in first using a mixture of ultramarine blue and violet, which worked well for this composition.