Beach

This is a watercolor painting I made as an example for class, I think during my internship, based on a series of photos I took while vacationing. It's bathers at sundown along the Gulf shore on Marco Island.
I gave the painting as a gift to my mother and it hung in her office at Western Michigan University until her retirement. Now that she lives most of the year in Florida she can pretty much see this kind of scene whenever she wants to, but for a while at least it was a nice reminder of what laid ahead of her as she read essays, entered grades, and met with complaining students.