Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

by AnnaJo Vahle

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40.000 x 30.000 x 1.000 inches

Title

Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

Artist

AnnaJo Vahle

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

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We visited this beautifully kept lighthouse a couple of different times this year. I based this painting our second visit. It was a stormy day the first time that we went. I wanted to see it in nice weather. We decided to look at it from a different perspective. This time we went to Ponce de Leon Inlet beach. It was a warm sunny day.

We walked along the boardwalk lugging a pretty big camera bag with a variety of lenses. Actually, Jim carried it on his back. We didn't think that it would be any hardship to walk the mile or so. Whoa, were we wrong! Both of us have multiple sclerosis and aren't exactly young. We were glistening with perspiration and breathing pretty heavily by the time we found a pretty nice vantage point on the beach. The sun beat down on us intensely.

Several people were on the beach.. Families were bathing and playing nearby. Some were bathing along the background beach. Boats were scooting here and there as people were enjoying the Florida summer day riding, skiing, and fishing.

I was relatively faithful about the houses around the foot of the Lighthouse. The same is true about the distant trees. The major thing that I changed was that I didn't paint any of the people on the foreground beach. I did put a few people in the distance on the far beach.

I took liberties with the colors, too. I wanted to create a sense of peace and quiet so I kept the composition fairly simple. I hoped to capture a sense of the community around the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse. This is a very diferent feeling from the first painting I did of this same lighthouse. The first painting is called “Lightning and the Light.”

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November 28th, 2018

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