{"id":9864,"date":"2012-03-27T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=9864"},"modified":"2012-03-27T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T21:35:08","slug":"gone-with-the-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/gone-with-the-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone with the tide…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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San Francisco, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Andres Amador is an artist who makes awe-inspiring, large scale eco-paintings in the sand. His beautiful designs range from organic, nature-inspired circuitous patterns to geometric, angular and hard-edged shapes, to spiritual symbols like the triquetra or the Celtic knot.<\/p>\n

Getting to the beach early, about an hour before the ocean recedes and usually under a full moon, is where and when it all begins for Andres. He starts with a fine-tip stick, drawing the framework and giving structure for his designs. Once outlined in the sand, he then adjusts his home-made painting utensil to a thicker line (about an 8\u2033 rake) to \u201cfill in\u201d the lines, making the sketch come alive. Once this is complete, he uses an even thicker rake to shade in different areas of the design before seeking higher ground to capture the sand painting on film.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSand is wonderful,\u201d says Amador, \u201cWhen I come to the beach it\u2019s all ready for me as it\u2019s been smoothed flat by the ocean.\u201d Much like fellow landscape artist<\/em><\/span> <\/em>Sonja Hinrichsen\u2019s<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span> snow drawings, cleanup isn\u2019t an issue with Andre\u2019s sand painting as nature takes care of this for him. \u201cIt\u2019s ephemeral,\u201d he explains, \u201cIt cannot last and it cannot be maintained.\u201d That\u2019s the beauty of it \u2013 but that\u2019s also why he and his team have to work fast.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

He does preliminary sketches based on the area he\u2019ll be working, and gives himself about a two-hour window to complete the painting and capture the image. And painting on a canvas anywhere between a few thousand square feet, to 30,000 square feet, this can often be a race against time. \u201cThe perspective is the hardest part.\u201d explains Amador, \u201cTo be aware of where I am in the image, and what\u2019s happening in the image and hold it all together, that\u2019s the biggest challenge.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

See more images and read more here<\/span><\/a>. Visit Andres Amador’s website here<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco, California Andres Amador is an artist who makes awe-inspiring, large scale eco-paintings in the sand. His beautiful designs range from organic, nature-inspired circuitous patterns to geometric, angular and hard-edged shapes, to spiritual symbols like the triquetra or the Celtic knot. Getting to the beach early, about an hour before the ocean recedes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}