We spent a week at the Black Rock at Christmas time. We were booked to stay for two weeks, but due to a huge storm that hit not only the west coast but all parts of Vancouver Island, we had to cut our stay short. to take care of things at home as our power was off.
In our week at Big Beach we had terrific wind storms and big big waves. I had lots of beach finds on this Abalone shells, Red turban snails, mussels, small pieces of scallops that have been worn down with holes from boring sponges, barnacles…After I photograph and draw from the shells, I put them back where I found them.
I set-up my winter studio and got right to work on observing and drawing the shells I had found.
December 18 @ 4:40 pm
December 20th Standing on the black rock cliff about 30 feet above normal wave action. You can see how close it is here.
December 20th. This wave did hit me. Normally the water is about 30 feet lower, that is how big this storm was.
December 22 @ 12:16 pm - The day after the huge storm
Back home and working in the studio
Continued to draw from my seashell collection once we got back home.