“Rockaway Town”
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Oil on linen
16" x 24" image, 22" x 30 " framed


This is the town of Rockaway Beach, Oregon looking north on U.S. Hwy. 101. The quaint old buildings still border 

this long stretch of main road and are a reflection of a trendy destination in the fifties. 

I stood near the soft drifts of sand that were swept against the parking strip and took dozens of pictures just waiting for the right vehicles to come a long.  Back at my studio when it came time to develop and stage my composition, I decided the VW bus was perfect. I changed the color from green to red and put myself in the driver’s seat. I had a van exactly like this in the early seventies. Oh how liberating it is to have an artistic license!