Coastal Art ~ Loran Chavez

I am a Professional Artist in Fairhope, Alabama. My work is in multiple media but my favorite is Acrylics~next in line Watercolors and then Oils. My favorite subjects include local wildlife, landscape~usually with boats, and obsession paintings (looking at other peoples obsessions in a new way).I participate in a lot of outdoor shows with helper and spouse Christopher. I do several outdoor shows a year and this blog is about the adventures getting ready for them.

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Sand dollar mini

I've never been lucky enough to find a sand dollar larger than about an

inch in size here on the Gulf Coast.

Like many of you, I've found pieces of the much larger shells,

usually so battered and broken as to be hard to tell if they are really sand dollars.

Usually in the Spring, May to be exact, I'll find several of them on our pre-dawn walks for sea turtle nests. Chris and I did find a rather large one off the coast of Florida. At first, I thought it was a piece of Oil sludge from the spill off the Louisiana coast. Turns out it was a large live sand dollar. The best part of all was that it was the most beautiful shade of purple I've ever seen!