Baker Beach to Heceta Beach (Oregon), 2023, ink on watercolor paper, 32 x 12 in. / 81.28 x 30.48 cm.

Baker Beach to Heceta Beach (Oregon), Mary Frisbee Johnson, 2023, ink on watercolor paper, 32 x 12 in. / 81.28 x 30.48 cm.

Pacific Waters is a series of ink drawings depicting the beaches and bays of the central Oregon Coast. I loved the Daler-Rowney indigo ink I was using, and the huge roll of heavy rough Arches watercolor paper I'd hoarded for at least fifteen years in a corner of my studio.