Ron
Marlett would take his niece's children to the beach during the
children's summer break from school. During one outing at Crystal Cove
in 2008, Ron brought his camera to take pictures of the children making
sand castles. Years later many of the photographs became sources for
his impressionistic style of painting. This piece has the diagonal
brush marks that follow the impasto rendition of Crystal Cove; a beach
state park along Pacific Coast Highway near Laguna Beach, California.
Ron enhances the S-curve composition by adding white flowers in the
fore ground shrubbery. The clouds become an extension of the sand as
the beach curves to the bottom. Ron paints the sand much lighter on the
right side of the painting to aid the white flowers in balancing the
white surf on the left of the pictorial space.
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