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I love these little easels...I found them at the art store the other day and just had to do a few little ones to these easels! I love beach roses. I don't even know if that is their official name. When I was little I always called them beach marshmallows. I have no idea why. But before I lived near the ocean (which is recent) and I went to the ocean for vacation, that heady, perfumy, warm smell, mixed with the smell of the ocean was just about the best smell ever. I always used to think they should figure out how to bottle it. But not just the rose smell. It would have to have that ocean smell mixed in...Now I live here, and they are everywhere! Whoda thunk! I love painting the drops. I thought they would be impossible, but they were surprisingly easy!
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'Beach Roses' is what they're called, formal name 'Rosa Rugosa'! And I'm with you - the scent is intoxicating. This is a sweet painting, and I love it that you included the dew drops - you GO Katie May!
I can so relate to the smell of these flowers. They're almost 'weeds' in that they thrive near the sand and salt water. I, too, came to live next to the ocean for the smell. When we were little our parents used to drive us out here ( a 45 minute drive that seemed like hours at the time) and it was the smell of the air that grabbed me. I never feel so alive as I do when I'm smelling the salt air of the beach or out painting in nature.
Nice work.
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