A good friend and I recently spent a lovely day next door in Florida exploring Grayton Beach and DeFuniak Springs. We took loads of photos, enjoyed a windy beach and had a delicious lunch at Grayt Grounds (Monet Monet).
Grayt Grounds is a Florida replica of Monet's Giverny home and garden with the added benefit of art, excellent coffee, pastries, sandwiches and a catering service. There is also a jewelry store on site called Rock Hard Designs. Very relaxing.
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Welcoming Front of Grayt Grounds
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Bridge and Koi Pond at Grayt Grounds
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Wedding Reception setting at Grayt Grounds
So there we were enjoying a fine lunch in this scenic stop when a lady sitting with her husband at a nearby table leaned over and asked if I was an artist. I said "Yes." She went on to say that I looked so familiar that she was sure that she had bought art from me. After several minutes of questions and discussion she decided that she had in fact bought a blue crab painting from me and had sent it to her father in Delaware as a present. This is entirely possible since I have done hundreds of sales via Ebay and Etsy over the past year. In any event, I was flattered and slightly bemused at being recognized in public outside of my local area.
Our next stop was DeFuniak Springs and a drive around perfectly round DeFuniak Lake fronted by gracious homes and churches. We stopped at Florida's oldest public library still in operation, the DeFuniak-Walton Library (built in 1886-1887), where the librarian wound up a giant music box for us and told us all about the collection of medieval swords that were hanging high on the library walls above the stacks.
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Walton-DeFuniak Library
All in all, it was a perfect day. Here is a painting of Grayt Grounds I was excited about creating. There are many more paintings to come from this day trip.
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Copyright Mona Vivar, Monet's Grayton, 9 inches by 12 inches, acrylic on canvas
Coming to Ebay Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. PST at Mona Vivar Fine Art Paintings
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