The year after I retired, I spent an amazing 10 days in Indonesia. My Weekly-ish Challenge was "Far Away," and that is definitely the most far-away place I've ever been.
I took the photo for this particular view on our first day. After landing at the airport, we were taken several hours away to our first village. Along the way, we stopped at their version of a convenience store where there were soft drinks, a kind of bathroom facility, snacks that were unrecognizable to us... and this view from the small parking lot.
Can you imagine seeing that every day?
If you look closely, you'll see guys standing barefoot on the big rocks in the surf. They were fishing with really long poles!
To this middle-of-the-country Arkansas girl, the waves looked like what the news shows when there's a hurricane, but they were just their regular every-day waves here.
I have about 900 more photos of this trip, the orphanage, the high school classrooms, the kindergarten school, the homes, the meals, the villages... but perhaps another time.
Here are a few other paintings I've done from that trip:
https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/2024/06/underwater.html (turtle release)
Original Palette Knife Oil Painting on 8"x 10" Wrapped Canvas
Click Indonesian Beach if you'd like to purchase this little painting.
What fun to revisit some of your memories from that trip. Glad you are creating paintings of your trip, too!
ReplyDeleteYeah... It's good to revisit the feelings and thoughts from that week while sitting at the easel.
DeleteThat painting looks like a photo - you tricked me! What a wonderful trip, I can't imagine. We have been to many different beaches in our scuba diving days. We only saw waves that size once in St. Croix during a little disturbance. We dove anyway and it was the most fun dive ever, believe it or not.
ReplyDeleteWell, we certainly didn't scuba dive, but it was sure beautiful to look at.
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