Homer Spit, Low Tide

Here is another painting from my recent trip to Homer. Very low tides all that week in Homer!

This was begun in early evening on the spit. The Homer spit is a long, curving, narrow bit of land that stretches 4.5 miles into Kachemak Bay. It's a very distinctive land formation, which has changed much over the years due to exposure to earthquakes, tsunamis, and storms. Today the spit is a wonderful place to walk the beach, camp, view eagles and other seabirds, and have a great meal on the little boardwalk. The view across the bay is always a pleasant sight.

9" x 12" oil on linen panel

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$325 plus shipping, unframed

Kachemak Bay First Light

I just returned from my yearly trip to Homer for plein air painting. The weather was overcast on many days, but at dawn the light came in from under the clouds. For this painting, I stood in almost the same place as last year, when I painted Kachemak Dawn #2 (back a few pages on this blog), but the mood is so very different!

8" x 10" oil on linen panel

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$240 plus shipping, unframed

Beluga Point

Finally a really beautiful day! As I was packing the finished painting, a bride, groom, and photographer arrived in a limo. While the groom held a huge bouquet, the bride picked up her flowing white skirt and stepped over the guard rail in her little white sandals. Then all three hiked over the Alaska Railroad track, down the rocky bluff, and out onto the beach below. Their appearance enchanted everyone and topped off a fine afternoon.

8" x 10" oil on linen panel
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$240 plus shipping, unframed

Cook Inlet Windy Day

This is just a few miles south of Anchorage. Capt. Cook tried to navigate these waters, but this section is treacherous and shallow, with bore tides and quicksand. Beluga whales are sometime visitors. On a sunny, windy day, it's a great place to make a little painting.

Many thanks to Stephan Zagrapan from Slovakia, who took the photo of me and my "traveling studio" while I worked on this painting! It was one of the only really sunny warm days we had this summer.

6" x 8" oil on linen panel

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Channel Bouys at Rest

The last of my June Homer paintings. The supervisor of the Coast Guard bouy tender, at anchor nearby, was kind enough to allow me onto the storage yard to paint. Later, two crewmembers came to check on my progress, and took the photo. I had been out there in the wind for some time, and was chilled, but happy.
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$285 plus shipping, unframed

9" x 12" oil on linen panel

View of Homer Spit

As I was leaving Homer, very early on Sunday, I stopped for a look back at the Homer Spit and Kachemak Bay. The sun was just slanting in under low clouds, a perfect Kenai Peninsula summer morning.


9" x 12" oil on linen panel
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Kachemak Dawn #2

This was painted about 7 AM on the same morning as #1, just a little way further down the beach. By this time, the sun had really started to light up those mountains!

8" x 10" oil on linen panel
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Kachemak Dawn #1

In the middle of June I went down to Homer to pay Fireweed Gallery a visit. This little sketch was done on the beach when only a few folks were out taking the morning air. At midsummer in Alaska, 6 AM is a perfect time to paint, before the dawn light turns to daylight.
Available at Fireweed Gallery

6" x 8" oil on linen panel
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