A Few Days at the Beach
My husband and I are spending a few days at the beach. We love to take long walks on the beach early in the morning, and spend time collecting shells and learning about the variety of fish, crabs, skates, skate egg sacs etc that we see.
One of my grandsons asked me to start a shell collection for him and in the last few days I found a good selection: clam, scallop, oyster, moon snail, whelk, mussel and slipper shells.
There were several dead horseshoe crabs, and two of these crabs that we still can't identify. Any ideas?,
Today I painted 5 views of the largest and prettiest intact moon snail shell I found. Now I look forward to tomorrow's walk - we never know what we shall find!
Comments
That snail shell is absolutely STUNNING, Shirley...glorious shapes and colors...
Posted by: Cathy Johnson (Kate) | June 7, 2011 9:52 PM
beautiful job!!! the page layout is great too, I love it!
Posted by: Christina | June 7, 2011 10:29 PM
Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Why can't I enlarge the photo so I can see MORE?
Posted by: Gwendolyn | June 7, 2011 10:45 PM
These are absolutely beautiful Shirley - the colours are just perfect. Can't help you to identify the crab though!
Sue
Posted by: Sue Brown | June 8, 2011 4:15 AM
These are so beautiful! Love the soft colors.
Posted by: Sasa | June 8, 2011 7:28 AM
I love your nmoon-snail sketch - almost ethereal! I have never seen crabs like that so perhaps they don't live in the UK - I hope someone manages to identify them for you.
Posted by: Margaret | June 8, 2011 3:36 PM
Love the shells and crab... the sketches are wonderful, beautiful work! :)
Posted by: dabs | June 8, 2011 4:34 PM
A beautiful bit of the sea for everyone to enjoy. Looks like you're having lots of fun.
Posted by: teri Flemal | June 8, 2011 5:44 PM
Love that drawing of the moon snail. Gorgeous!
Posted by: Lynn | June 8, 2011 6:05 PM
Really good! You captured dimension really well here.
Posted by: Melly | June 8, 2011 7:10 PM
Love those shells, both painted and the real once. The paintng of them is really beautiful, well done.
For the crab, I have no idea other than it looks like a crab : )
Fantastic shell collection for your son, I bet he will be happy with them.
Posted by: Mari | June 9, 2011 8:04 AM
Shirley, Your colors and page design are beautiful. I most admire your ability to capture the swirling forms of these shells in your drawings. For some reason, that really makes me think of the snail's life snuggled inside while the waters flowed outside. Thanks for sharing. Ambal
Posted by: ambal | June 9, 2011 10:03 AM
The photographs are so well composed, and the shells are awesome =)
Posted by: Alex Tan | June 12, 2011 8:04 AM
Your moonsnail shell is beautifully rendered. All views of it. It's going to be fun to see your seagull drawings.
Posted by: Susan | June 13, 2011 6:54 PM
The unidentified crab looks like a spider crab to me, they have that very distinct pointy nose!
Posted by: Zack Neher | July 17, 2014 2:41 PM
The unidentified crab looks like a spider crab to me, they have that very distinct pointy nose!
Posted by: Zack Neher | July 17, 2014 2:41 PM