When it's all said and done this 12 x 12 oil painting will be called BEACH UMBRELLAS.

The first thing I always paint is the sky. You can see I really glopped on the white paint for the clouds.

When that was finished I began painting the water behind the row of blue umbrellas.

When that was done I began painting the umbrellas and chairs from left to right.

I did about half the row on this first day.

DAY TWO: More umbrellas.

When I finally finished all the chairs and umbrellas I moved to the lower half of the painting.

I'm done for now. The sand and grass are so wet that they'll need to dry before I can do anything else.

DAY THREE: the sand is dry so I'm going to add a few more colors to it. I don't like how pastel the grass is right now. The colors got muted from the white in the sand.

Now the grass is starting to look more vibrant. Just the way I like it.

I added quite a bit of dark blues and browns to the base of the grasses. I think this is a nice balance to the row of blue chairs. It also helps the bright green grasses pop out of the shadows.

I think I'm done! Time to let this dry again.