A little R & R in Punta Mita

relaxing at the St. Regis Resort on Punta de Mita peninsula

laying on a lounge chair and enjoying the gentle sea breezes,

and easy summer temperatures under a huge umbrella

or at the oceans edge under a swaying palm tree

day dreaming and drawing...

soaking up the local color

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reading and water coloring...

Punta Mita is a 1,500-acre amazingly lush beachfront village

located on the north end of Banderas Bay in Mexico,

about 10 miles north of Puerto Vallarta

and it's surrounded on three sides by the Pacific ocean


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map photo courtesy of St.Regis

I can highly recommend it !

( a most generous gift from an appreciative client )

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On a creative roll

.I came across several miscellaneous sized scraps of wood

while picking up about the cottage

and as a happy diversion I began gessoing them.

I wasn't really clear as to what I was going to create

or use them for

but it is always good to be prepared

for when the muse arrives.

Maybe it was because there was so much attention

to the size of the 10 foot waves

pounding our local coastline last week,

or because I look out upon it each day

and still I am in awe of its immensity

and how it seems to go on forever.

I began painting ocean scenes

one after another...

with no horizon line or shoreline

just scenes of forever ...

of course I realize acrylic paintings

are not supposed to be matted

or put behind glass

in shadow box frames.

But that is exactly what I chose to do.

Who makes up the rules anyway ?

They would probably be most distressed

to find out that much of the detail on the paintings

was accomplished with a wooden barbecue skewer !