I painted this Lighthouse using Paul Clark’s demo on-line. This was so enjoyable! I learned some new techniques and got more practice in wet-on-wet and color mixing. How lovely it would be to perch on the rocks and watch and listen to this water!
A lighthouse is not there because the water is always calm and rhythmic. It is there because the coast line becomes treacherous in storms. This lighthouse has a large home attached, so this lighthouse keeper was probably not alone very much of the time. The lighthouses along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, USA, were kept by mostly solitary men living very solitary lives. One reason they did this dangerous, tedious, lonely work was to save strangers navigating these dangerous coasts in storms.