Lighthouse At Oregon Shore Pacific Ocean Watercolor

 

Lighthouse Cape Meares Oregon Shore Pacific Ocean Watercolor

This gorgeous landscape at Cape Meares Lighthouse opens up a view of Pacific Ocean from a high rocky cliff. The weather was just right for me to paint it. 

Here is a little bit of history of this beautiful place:

Obtained between 1938 and 1968 by lease and purchase from three federal government agencies, the park is surrounded by the Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge. The cape itself was once an active lighthouse of the U. S. Coast Guard. The cape is named for the 18th century British naval officer, trader and explorer John Meares.
The lighthouse was built in 1889 and commissioned on January 1, 1890. The tower stands 38 feet high and is the shortest lighthouse in Oregon. It is constructed of bricks covered with iron plates. The original addition that now houses the interpretive shop was a work room built in 1895.  The current interpretive shop replaced the original work room in 1978.
The lens is a first order Fresnel lens made in Paris, France. It was shipped around Cape Horn, up the west coast to Cape Meares and then hauled 217 feet up the cliff by a wooden crane that was built from local timbers native to the area. It is an eight-sided lens with four primary lenses and four bull's-eye lenses with red panels covering the bull's-eye lenses. It produced about 30 seconds of fixed white light from the primary lens followed by a red flash of five seconds from the bull's-eye lens once every minute. This was the signature of Cape Meares Lighthouse. The primary lens produced 18,000 candlepower and the bull's-eye lens produced 160,000 candlepower. The light could be seen for 21 nautical miles at sea.
(information from official Cape Meares Lighthouse website) 



More Travel Sketches and Paintings from all over the World 


Around The World Travel Gallery became very popular in the last year, I've sold many artworks with famous places and I am glad that my followers and art appreciators are adding my art to their home collections. 

Grand thanks to the International Art Collector from Uppsala, Sweden, for purchasing this artwork:
  
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Many thanks to the Art Collector from BRYN MAWR, PA for purchasing print of this artwork:
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Warm thanks to the Art Collector from Atlanta, GA for purchasing a lovely print with this artwork:
 
Pyramids Of Giza Egypt Watercolor Sphinx And Camel Watercolor Painting by the artist Irina Sztukowski

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Grand thanks to the Art Collector from Stewartsville, NJ for purchasing a print with this artwork:
Watercolor Lavender Fields Of French Province Herb De Provence painting bestseller by Irina Sztukowski
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My appreciation goes to the Art Collector from Richmond, VA for purchasing a nice canvas print with this Monet House in Giverny France watercolor:
Giverny Mansion France House Of Claude Monet Near Paris
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Many many thanks to the Art Collector from Midland, GA for purchasing print with this artwork:
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