I’ve mentioned beach glass in various articles and blog posts before but there is just something magical about the color of beach glass, for me at least.
Oil painting of Long Island Sound by Donna Frasca, 1985
I guess growing up on Long Island, NY and being surrounded by the water for most of my youth has made an impact on my color views of the ocean. Walking the waters edge and finding any beach glass was like finding a $10 dollar bill on the ground.
Beach glass would be found in two colors, blue and green. On the extremely rare occasion, like 1 in a million rare, you would find a cobalt blue beach glass and that would be like finding, well, $1,000,000 on the ground – not quite but it was still a find.
Beach glass would be found in two colors, blue and green. On the extremely rare occasion, like 1 in a million rare, you would find a cobalt blue beach glass and that would be like finding, well, $1,000,000 on the ground – not quite but it was still a find.
At of all the color fan decks I have, there are just a few colors that come close to the beach glass group I love. I think the best grouping is from is by Benjamin Moore which has a whole strip of Historic Colors from Salisbury Green to Palladian Blue. I colored a cottage style home in these colors and it was so beautiful! Valspar has the Waverly Home Classics collection and it’s called “Seafoam”.
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But for the best choice in Beach Glass colors, I rely on the Sherwin Williams paint deck. They have such a soft, muted collection of the coastal hues that is very popular here in Charlotte.
Wonderful colors Donna, and you always show the best inspirations pictures too!
ReplyDeleteYour right cobalt blue is a hard find, red is even rarer! Little beach glass to be found anymore unless a storm hits if you arrive at the beach after 3 in the morning you have missed getting even one tiny piece around here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Debbie - need a good visual!
ReplyDeleteBeach House - red glass? I've never saw it in my life. I wonder where it comes from? They say the blue is from old medicine bottles but not sure where red glass would originate from. I'll have to look into it.
Donna- We have seaglass on the brain!! Since most of my summers are now spent on the LI Sound, I have to tell you blue seaglass here is a hot commodity! I think all of the good stuff washes up to Long Island proper and us sunny ourselves in W.county are left with only the brown, greens and clear to fight over.
ReplyDeleteSo most Blue discoveries result from day trips to Robert Moses or when I'm lucky enough to invited out to the Hamptons (hopefully the beach gods are listening right now).
Great line up of SW colors...entering them in my color bank now! (I've read 'Orange' is the holy grail of sea glass finds)
I like this very much. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteMatthew - your blog is amazing. I'm homesick now but will revisit through your blog - thank you!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous painting, Donna -I love these colors of sand and sea!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Maya. I actually "saw" that painting in a dream one night and painted it the very next day. It's nice to dream about beach scapes!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I am going to add your blog to my list of favorites! I would love to learn more! ♥
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