Norma Wilson Original Oil Beach Grass Seascape Coastal Living Decor Ocean Painting Art

Beyond The Beach Grass

© Norma Wilson, original oil on canvas 5" by 7"

More coastal fun! I love to watch the beach grass wave with the breeze and beckon

you on to the water. Hope your week is going well!

Norma Wilson Original Oil Sea Gull Bird Ocean Coastal Seascape Beach Painting Art

Gull At Twilight

9" by 12" original oil on canvas

295.

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My favorite time of day to walk the beach.  It is so magical with everything lit in the warm light at the end of the day.  Everything seems right with the world.  have a beautiful day!

#120 Little Surfer Girl!

#120 Little Surfer Girl

5" by 7" original oil on panel

150.

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Today was a day of angst about beginning to paint and then scraping off my first painting.  Those are the times when I question my saying I would post a painting every day this year!  But the determination kicked in and I found this little girl in a photo reference taken at the beach and I am so glad I did not quit! I made some color changes and simplifications to the scene.  I love her little board and the whole beauty of children at play at the beach.  It brings back such fond memories of all the sights and sounds so unique to a summer trip to the seaside.  I wish I had had a little board like this to ride the waves! :-)

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#118 Feeling Crabby

#118 Feeling Crabby

9" by 12" original oil on canvas with sides painted

275.

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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought this was a good title for Monday.  Lol.  Hope not really.  Hope your week is off to a great start full of energy and hope for good things to come.  Thanks for checking in with me!

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#114 Sand Crab Adventure Seascape

#114  Sand Crab Adventure Seascape

14" by 18" original oil on canvas with sides painted

600.

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Today's theme for our painting group was seascapes with people.  I first saw these two boys on a trip to South Carolina.  They reminded me of when my boys were little and shared many an adventure on our trips to the ocean.  They loved the little sand crabs that are so speedy as they run along the beach and dig their way into the sand.  I loved playing with all the colors I saw in the water and the texture and movement in the water.  Capturing the moment that the children were experiencing together was great fun.  We all really enjoyed this theme and I  know with so much inspiration surrounding me that there will be more!  Have a wonderful day...hope you find time for some fun and adventure!

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Come With Me To The Sea!

Come With Me To The Sea!

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This piece is framed and shown below

8" by 8"

No, I didn't drop off the face of the earth but have been still working towards my goal of moving to the sea!  My home if officially on the rental market and I have been having so much fun looking at potential areas to live and what is available.  More places come on the market every day.  As soon as it rents and I find a spot, I should be able to paint again until I move so I will keep you posted.  In the meantime, I am showcasing my favorite beach paintings!   This one really captures the romantic feeling of walking through the door to the magic of the sea beyond!  Hope your day is great and I hope you will keep checking back!

Beach Dreams

Beach Dreams

8" by 8" original oil on canvas and framed
See painting in frame below..

"One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Some of my best memories growing up was our yearly trip to Wildwood, New Jersey and we would usually rent a little efficiency apartment and take enough food for the week.  I never remember eating out when we where there!  We spent the days at the ocean and at night my Dad and I would go to the boardwalk and go on the rides and eat cotton candy and just have fun together.  My Mom was probably exhausted from cooking!  Anyway, this quote struck a cord because it was such a simple experience.  A couple of small suitcases and all the fun came from the ocean, the sea air, and time spent together.  My Dad and I liked the pretty tame rides and the Pirate Ship!  Since that time we always lived near the beach as a military family.  Where I live now is a thirty minute drive and now that my nest is empty most of the year, I am going to move within walking distance of the ocean and be able to walk on the beach and enjoy some of that sea air.  That is why I have not been posting as often and this piece is one of my favorites that has been posted before.  I have been purging, putting my house on the rental market, and whipping my house into shape!  So bear with me for a bit while I get my bearings and have an idea of my time frame.  Then I will be able to focus again on painting.  I also want to remind everyone that my special discount for collectors and subscribers of 20% ends this Sunday!  Don't miss out on this!  Have a great day!

Oh, this painting was inspired by a trip to Virginia Beach when my dream of living by the ocean began to really take hold earlier this year.  This spot was up on the North End of the oceanfront.

Please Don't Eat The Poppies!

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
St Fancis of Assisi

 Please Don't Eat The Poppies!

4" by 6" original oil on multi-media board

Comes with double mat that is 8" by 10"

$95.

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I'm still here! Hope you are too and have not thought I fell off the blogosphere!  I think that is a word.  Since my epiphany that I could no longer wait to move to the beach and start the rest of my life....I have been in a bit of a self inflicted tailspin.  It has been both scary and thrilling to begin the ball rolling and start searching for a new place.  I have also been putting things on craigslist and donating to the Salvation Army and still throwing stuff out!  I am so glad that I started this purging process last year.  It is a long one after 26 years of raising children.  My oldest son, Patrick had his 26th birthday yesterday! Yikes...how did that happen!  I hope your weekend is a great one filled with summer fun and some rest!  We just had a really awesome thunderstorm so I hope things will be a wee bit cooler!  Take care and thanks so much for stopping by!  I will keep you posted on any beachy developments!

I am sure there will be lots of new inspiration for new paintings!

                                  Beach Magic!

                                   6" by 6" original oil on canvas board

                        “Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach" 
                                                                                                                  -- Michelle Held
     We spotted this little girl on our trip to Savannah and took her picture so I could paint her. It is so
wonderful to relive the magic that children feel when they are at the beach and they spot a shell or a
sand crab or just get themselves full of sand while making sand castles or bury one another.  Perhaps
it is the intensity of the experience or the way they become immersed in the moment......

     I have been really getting paint all over me the last few days and quite a bit on canvas too!  It has
been fun painting from my inspiration while away and I also experimented a bit with new canvas board
that I got at Jerry's Artarama.  I really enjoyed working on the surface and I think they will look great framed or propped up on an easel.
      Have any of you ever heard of catfish noodling?  Just when you have heard everything....think again!  You have to watch this short video of how some people catch catfish!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjA8Puh1BM  Guess there are lots of things for this yankee to learn yet!

 Hope you have a terrific day!   

For questions or more information on this piece, please contact me at normasart@cox.net.

Norma Wilson Original Oil Starfish Sea Creature Ocean

Hidden Treasure

11" by 14" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

"Happiness depends more in the inward disposition of mind than on the outward circumstances." Benjamin Franklin

I really like this quote and it is a good one to post on the frig as I know I tend to forget this sometimes....wanting to control outcomes at times...thinking I know what will make me or others happy. :-) It can be like a switch in the brain to chose happy over unhappy. I experienced it today when my grandpuppy decided to give my tomato plant a bit of a "pruning". Needless to say....there will be no tomatoes this summer from this plant. My friend, Barbara, had given it to me as a tiny plant that she had started from seed. I was feeling a lot of pride that I had watered it every day and you would have thought no one else on the planet had such a perfect plant...I became very "attached". When it happened, I made a bit of an "issue" about it with my son and pretty quickly realized that I had a choice to be happy and spread happiness or do just the opposite. Feeling good and spreading cheer is definitely better but sometimes the opposite is SO tempting! If you are reading this Barbara, I HAVE taken steps to protect the herbs! Enjoy the weekend!

Norma Wilson Original Oil Sea Gull At The Shore SOLD

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9" by 12" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau