Artist's Inspiration: When its winter in Colorado there is no place I would rather be than on a island beach with my feet in the sand, a breeze in the palm trees, pondering life.  I love to watch the ospreys and shorebirds make nests and fish in the ocean for food.. That is a good day.

you can also buy tropical paradise as  kitchen backsplash tile mural   or  as a Canvas art print

 On sale from Artist Linda Paul
Tropical Paradise  - Island Art Beach Painting
framed size 35" x 29". Price $1790.00  sale price $895.00

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This artwork was painted in pure egg tempera made from natural crushed stone & earth mixed with a bit of water and egg yolk.. Blues come from crushed lapis lazuli, greens from malachite & natural green earth found around Verona Italy. Painter Linda Paul  uses fascinating colors which have been "lost" for hundreds of years & new colors which she has discovered in the Rocky Mountains. Her earth ochers come from the ancient  mines of  France & Italy.  read more about egg tempera paintings: Frame: Comes with 3" high quality hand-crafted,  solid wood frame. Frame is hand-painted  by the artist in a dark brown with a rust  orange underpaint  to perfectly compliment the painting. click picture to see larger image of framed painting You can buy Tropical Paradise as a ready to hang canvas print or a Kitchen backsplash tile Mural

Get Tropical  with your home decor: You can decorate an entire room using the colors in this painting as inspiration. Use a soft creamy yellow for your wall paint color, furniture can be in rich gold and brown tones, then use teal and red for your pillows and home decor accessories  to create pops of color. Using some glass in your decor and furniture choices will keep the look fresh and contemporary. For more of a beach decor look, use an even lighter color on your walls and select furniture that is light in color and style

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Step 1 Underpainting begins:

Here is how this original painting was  created: I have just started a new painting Inspired by Sanibel island in Florida. My husband and I visit every year and we are working on making our dreams of living there (at least part time) a reality. I figured if I created a beautiful painting of it, my dreams might come true.  My paintings are not created from photographs.  Instead, I create of collage in my mind of vignettes and favorite impressions of things that I love about a place. After that I sketch it out and paint it to capture the quintessential spirit of the place. My quintessential Island painting has to have  beach and waves, palm trees, a beautiful sunset sky, and of course birds. One of my favorite things about the island are the birds. So there might be ospreys or herons and plovers and maybe even a cardinal in the sea grape at the front of the painting. My paintings are created in pure egg tempera made from crushed stone and egg yolk. In the very first stages of this painting, I have laid down an underpainting of white, yellow pale oranges and a hint of blue mixed with titanium white. Historically if I would have been creating this painting 500 years ago, I would have used lead white, but I don't use the toxic historical pigments for health reasons. I work from light to dark which is the opposite of oil painters.

Step 2 Commit to a Palette of Color

In this step, I have chosen my color for the sea based on my initial undercolors of the sky. The little bit of turquoise blue and saffron in the sky become intensified and reflected into the water. Sky and water should never be created in isolation.  For me, they are one and the same

Step 3 develop the spirit of the painting click picture to see larger image

Here I have developed the ocean waves and water a bit more, floating it into the beach sand.  Egg tempera is particularly effective for this as it can be translucent and luminous if mixed properly .  To get translucent color I use only pure crushed mineral or stone with a bit of egg yolk and water. I have added a fruiting palm tree and a sea pine with a pair of nesting ospreys. Next I will work on the sea grape and other plants in the foreground

Step 4 click picture to see larger image

I have worked on the foreground of the painting developing the leaves of a sea grape and adding a blue heron, a red cardinal and hibiscus flowers My plans for the next step are to add window over top of what I have painted thus far

Step 5 add the window

Its been a while since I posted the progress on this painting. I have been distracted and upset by the disaster in the Gulf and was working on my abstract fleur de lis painting. I only hope the our beautiful beaches and  marshes  survive. I am now working on the window which overlooks the beach

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