I made a trip to the coast of Oregon to watch wales as they migrated north. At the time I only did a quick pencil sketch of this lighthouse. I decided to go back and do a digital painting.
The scene reminds me of an Edward hopper painting, so I pulled up one of his paintings as a palette.
I am making no attempt at producing a finalized painting, instead preferring to keep the sketch intact.
This is the Heceta Head Lighthouse located on a rugged outcropping overlooking the ocean. It is one of the most popular and inspirational sites on the Oregon Coast.
The Heceta Head Lighthouse and Queen Ann style Light Keeper’s home, circa 1894, are both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It sits 205 feet above the ocean at the top of rugged cliffs.
Whale watchers with there binoculars in hand scanned the ocean hoping to see fine mist spouts from wales exhaling before they gathered another breath.
I never saw a whale but I am betting some if not all of the seasoned whale watchers caught a glimpse.
On this trip I also was looking for Kelp forests so I could see sea otters in their natural habitat. I was quite successful in seeing Otters. They would lie on their backs and smash shells on a stone they had lying on their stomach.
The otters were so far off shore that I didn’t try and catch a sketch of them. Now I have binocular opera glasses which I could use to get such a distant sketch.