Sand Island, Palmico Sound, North Carolina
gouache
11.4 x 17.8 cm (4.5" x 7")

This painting is a gouache study for a small oil that I'm working on. It was done very quickly in perhaps fifteen minutes.

There are many such islands as this sand island, if indeed island is the right word, in Palmico Sound, which lies between North Carolina's Outer Banks and the mainland. This particular island was on the ferry route between Ocracoke and Cedar Island, where the Sound is quite shallow. Lone fishermen could be seen waist deep in the water with no land in sight.