I have always been attracted to the seashore. Who isn't? Yesterday I came across these words from Isaac Newton: "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
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painting perceptions. The painting perceptions site is rich with painters and paintings. That's where I first found Neil Riley.
The drawing has the same proportions as the pastel, but it's approximately 5x8, while the pastel is 8x10.