Price: $2100.
Size: 22" h x 30" Description: The Saltworks once existed in Newport's Back Bay. I was one of Corona del Mar High Schools first students and part of the first graduating class. When they opened it, no homes existed on the bluffs and they filled the school with students culled from Newport Harbor and Costa Mesa. To get us there,we were bussed around the back bay every morning. With my head resting up against the window, I would gaze at the Saltworks and watch the early sun rising and sparkling on the large piles of salt crystals. I was fascinated with the seven pools of water in various stages of drying, reflecting the sky and providing a new source of sea salt each year. That pond would then be flooded as they moved to the next, cycling the seven ponds. Beautiful in my eyes, I told myself then, that someday I would paint this. Years later, after marriage and while living out of state, there came a rainstorm in Orange County that wiped it out. Not able to wait seven years to get the next new harvest, the Saltworks closed forever. Only one photo I had taken survived my many moves, but it lived forever in my memory, and one day I fulfilled that promise to myself. This watercolor is the one published in the Art Lover's Cookbook, Orange County Edition. There exists an etching and an oil painting that preceded this.