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copyright Linda Young 2012
Titled: A Taste of Blue Heaven
13-1/2 x 21" Watercolor |
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This painting is a result from a visit a year ago to Ricky's Blue Heaven Restaurant and Bar in Key West, Florida. Here, we are sitting on barstools underneath the roof an outside bar that sits on sand. It is surrounded on two sides by Palm Trees and another side by a musician's pavillion and hungry people waiting to eat at this fabulous restaurant. There are chickens roosting in the trees and walking around with their baby chicks on the sand floor of the restaurant while stray cats find a comfy place to snooze on porches or in someone's lap. The cats just don't seem to be bothered by the cats or vice versa.
I painted this because I was captivated by the warm and cool colors of the bottles, their contents and the reflected light that bounced around and through them. The greens of the palms and wood shelving add an earthly feel to the complex scene and the setting sun cast warmth to it all.
This is my husband and my favorite place to go to and eat in Key West and we make it a point to go there at least twice during our vacation.
