Daybreak is a pastel by Kim McElroy which was uploaded on March 25th, 2015.
Title
Daybreak
Artist
Kim McElroy
Medium
Pastel
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Thirteen Horses Race the Dawn
" Driven by the offshore wind they form
the gift of Poseidon, god of the sea.
Mares of water, salt, and foam,
dancing in dawn's first light to me."
- Kim McElroy
The inspiration for Daybreak came from a photographic card published by the Sierra Club. When I contacted the photographer for permission to paint it, he told me the location of the beach is on the island of Kauai, a view from Ke�e Beach looking down the Na Pali Coast. A windsurfer friend looked at the photo and said, "Oh yeah, surfers call that wave "mares heads". He didn�t realize how profound his comment was to me, for I had discovered I could find the shapes of horses in waves, and this phenomenon was apparently something other people unconsciously perceived.
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March 25th, 2015
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