Kite Surfer. Tahunanui Beach

This was a tough one. Facing into a strong southerly breeze. The winter sun, not setting, but low in the sky. It was lingering behind these torn Turneresque clouds, creating a strange sparkling light on the choppy seas behind the Blind Arm, where the Waimea estuary empties out into Tasman Bay.

It is not what I went there to paint, and normally I avoid wild skies looking into the wind and sun, but what with the kites and all, I had to try.

I think that it works.



15134. "Kite Surfer, Tahunanui". Oil on panel. 8x10 in. $150

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