It Wasn't that Stanley was all that Dreadful, It was Just that this was Exactly What Helen and the Girls Came to Biarritz to Escape

Gouache on illustration board, 10" x 15". It is a grey day in Portland today, not that I'm complaining, we've had a very sunny winter. It just made me feel like painting a beach scene. I hadn't intended to add Stanley until I was almost finished, Helen and the girls looked just as bored before he came onto the scene, now he has just given them reason to be annoyed and will give them something to talk about later.