Nancy Doyle Fine Art
This is an original oil painting called Gold Beach, so named because I used gold paint for the sand (actually this was a bronze powder with a gold color). I started painting beaches because of the small areas of bright color, then discovered how these colors react against the blue of the ocean. There are many visual possibilities in painting beaches, and they are fun to do - however, they take quite a bit of time, since there are many different colors to mix for these small areas of color. I like to use metallic paints (silver, gold, copper, and pearlescent white), because they can be more visually interesting/different than the traditional colors. They also have many associations, in art (many pre-Renaissance and Renaissance paintings have gold for religious purposes; traditional Japanese and Persian painters used gold often); and outside of art (associations with elegance, monetary value, consumer culture, etc.) But probably the main reason I use them is that color-wise, they produce unusual and vibrant reactions with the colors around them. These colors come in standard paint tubes, as well as in powder form, and most art suppliers carry them. This painting has a plain wooden frame of corner moulding, which forms a "shadow box," meaning that there is a 1/4" space between the edges of the painting and the edge of the frame.
