Another 1998 work rediscovered recently, this was trying to capture that first impression of going to the beach in Spring. No crowds, high clouds, the sun low enough to give the ocean a deeper shade of blue and the sea breeze generating a small surf. Perfect in my mind, harder to capture on paper, you can see what I was trying to achieve.
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