Blue Umbrella, watercolor and ink on paper. Have you ever attended a workshop where you are in a session on relaxation and you're told to close your eyes and go to your happy place? No? Oh... well... me either. Anyway, I've "heard" of those kinds of sessions and this place is is where I go... err... WOULD go IF I were directed to in one of those sessions which I've never attended. Anyway, this is a place on Cable Beach, Nassau, Bahamas. It's a place where I go to relax, read, paint and just chill.

This painting was done en plein air one morning when I had a headache and couldn't sleep, perhaps because of the Excedrin I took a little earlier. The sea was calm, the view was great and the place was empty. Gotta love that combo.