At the beginning of the year when the weather outside was dark, grey and cold I woke up one morning with a strong desire to see a very specific image: big, minimalistic, yellow beach, turqoise water, blue sky, white sailboats. Since I had absolutely zero chance to get my hands on an image like this I grabbed cardboard, scissors, glue and created this (mostly to not forget this idea):
The composition felt great, the style also but the cardboard thing was way too lifeless to make me enjoy it really. It was March and the weather was still terrible so I started painting to make the images become more alife. I was never good at that but for this simple image it kind of worked and multiple versions and styles were created.
I was happy, looked at the results with joy and forgot about it. Then came the summer holiday and we went to the coast. More as an accident rather on purpose I took this image and was immediately reminded of the original idea:
Of course it took me many attempts to finally get this:
It is not 100% what I wanted to get but I was surprised how close one can get from an “in the head” image to a photograph. I still have to print it to really say if it pleases me when on the wall.