Hatteras Island
gouache
11.4 x 17.8 cm (4.5" x 7")

Hatteras Island is part of North Carolina's Outer Banks. To the right of the road, over the dunes lies a seemingly endless beach on the Atlantic, and just to the left, New Inlet, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Palmico Sound.

Hatteras Island is low, flat, and narrow, and covered with dunes, grass patches, and a few scrub trees. It seemed desolate to me, but to a fisherman or surfer it might be paradise.