Duxbury Beach and Bay

Duxbury Beach and Bay Stage One

Construction projects in our household generate quite a bit of scrap lumber.   It doesn't all make suitable painting surfaces, but occasionally I will pluck a board or piece of wood that looks uniform and smooth.   Medium Density Fiberboard or MDF is a popular shelving material and I grabbed a fairly long piece recently and started to prepare it by applying several coats of black gesso.  This shelving reject was going to become a panoramic, over-the-sofa painting.

Duxbury Beach and Bay Stage Two

As you have seen in some of the blog posts, I occasionally record 360 degree videos of my paint out locations.   I thought it would be interesting to produce a painting that spans a nice wide view, and I had been thinking about capturing one of my favorite local vistas for this painting.    

At Duxbury Beach Reservation, the long white sandy beach (left) is bordered by a wide strip of dunes, beach grasses and shrubs(middle), then the beach road, more grasses, then Duxbury Bay(right).   If you stand at the top of one of the first crossovers, a footpath from the bayside to the beach, you can see a fantastic view of both the ocean and the bay, the subject of this painting.    The size of this is 10 x 42.5 without any frame, and would be nice over a mantle or sofa.

Duxbury Beach and Bay