Painting Exuma Island ✿ Plein Air Vlog #58

This week, I take you with me to a lesser-visited island in The Bahamas. I paint a beach house and do an additional cloud study, all the while showing clips of Little Exuma -- the island that my husband's family once called home.
Art Supplies:
-- 140 lb. Cold Press Arches Watercolor paper
- Escoda Reserva travel brush
-- Rosemary travel brush
-- vintage 1980s Winsor Newton watercolor mini palette
- watercolor paints by Winsor Newton and Daniel Smith
-- 3M masking tape
Camera/Microphone: an aging iPhone SE
Cameras: Insta360 Go 3 and an ancient iPhone 5s
Editing: iMovie
Anything else you'd like to see? Let me know! I'm trying to post something every week, usually on Wednesdays but sometimes Thursdays.
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Laura G. Young
Bird & Nature Art
Fort Collins, Colorado
www.lauragyoung.com
Blog: lauragyoung.blo...
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Twitter: @LauraGYoung
Instagram: @laura_g_young

[@terrilikens4975]

Wow. That was relaxing.

[@LauraGYoung]

It was! 🥰🌴

[@heday60]

In the last few years the wife and I discovered we are beach people, and this video spoke to both of us. While I like the first painting well enough, the bonus is exquisite. I feel the spontaneity of it transmitts your passion in the landscape as a whole, and really brings out the beauty of the place. Well done!

[@LauraGYoung]

Thanks so much! 🥰I hope to visit and paint more beaches in the future; but it's a bit of a challenge as we live over 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean. 🌊🏖

[@karenjohnson6487]

So beautiful. Looks like you had a wonderful vacation. Thanks for sharing.

[@LauraGYoung]

Thanks, Karen! It was hard to go back home, for sure. 🌺 🌅 🛥️ 🐠 🌴

[@moonchaserstudio]

Beautiful! The first thing I thought of when I saw the water is you’re gonna need some turquoise paint! 😂😂

[@LauraGYoung]

I know, right?? It was so beautiful it was surreal.

[@kimesch9698]

My favorite color ever since going to Nassau in my 20’s.❤❤❤

[@WildWoodlandsSW]

I really like the way you put this video together,a work of digital art in itself. Enjoy the amazing sights and sounds with your family!

[@LauraGYoung]

Thanks muchly, WW! Editing video can be a bit of work (as I’m sure you know), but it’s such a direct and amazing way to share with others.

[@suzannemarshall7458]

Wow! so enjoyed the Bahamas. so nice of you to include us and show your painting. Lovely

[@LauraGYoung]

Thanks for coming along! ((hug)) 😊🌴💕

[@MrsBarnabas]

Laura, many thanks for taking us with you to such a beautiful place. It reminds me of snorkelling in the indian Ocean (Maldives, Mauritius) and the Caribbean (Bonaire, one of the ABC Islands of the Leeward Antilles). We did many other diving / snorkelling holidays but nothing matched the beauty, peace and friendliness of those islands, especially the dive and snorkel boat boys of Mauritius who were brillantly kind, helping this disabled lady to get a glimpse of a deep underwater world I could never have accessed without them. Snorkelling in shallow water is mesmerising, but two of them took me between them to swim in deep water... Their kindness, (and that of every local I met on the island, who went out of their way to give me experiences I could not have managed otherwise_) lives on in my heart! We were on Bonaire on September 11th 2001, at a dive complex of mostly Americans. I will never, ever, forget that shocked silence across the whole complex,,, and I have never been able to type that holiday book. But thanks again for taking time out to share part of your family holiday with us. That first painting, as you said, so different from Colorado, was simply beautiful! Did you swim and snorkel? I hope so - It would be so incrediby lovely! 😊

[@LauraGYoung]

Bonaire is where my husband and I have done most of our scuba dives -- LOVE it there! The parrots and flamingos are so amazing there. And yes, we did manage to get underwater during this trip -- all of the footage was taken by yours truly while snorkeling (that's me at the 1:01 minute mark and again waving at 1:22). After hearing your praise for Mauritius, we'll have to look into it. Thanks for sharing! :)

[@DarciBarker1]

(It’s Darci, not Rick.) I’ve commented before but wasn’t able to with my new phone. Anyway, that ocean is my happy color!! Can you have a happy color? Love your paintings! It looks like you paint oceans every day! Enjoy! If you can’t be in the mountains an island is a pretty good substitute. 😂🙂❤️

[@LauraGYoung]

Hi Darci! (Sorry if I mistook you earlier, hehe). Yes, that blue is one of my happy colors, too. You know, I don't think I've painted an ocean from life more than a handful of times. I've been in and around mountains my entire life, but I think I could get used to island living as long as there's air conditioning -- it was so humid! Ooof. Thanks again for coming along on my adventures, L. 🎨🐠🌴