Saturday, November 28, 2015

BLACK PEARL FARM TOUR GUIDE, watercolor on Arches

BLACK  PEARL FARM TOUR GUIDE, 10x7.5" watercolor on Arches paper.

Painted aboard the Crown Princess cruise-ship during my trip to the South Pacific last month. Beautiful country, beautiful and kind people. The way they grow the black pearls is amazing. They insert a tiny pebble, almost a grain of sand in the oyster, and wait 7 years to have a cultivated black pearl! The same oyster can have this procedure done three times in its life, before it dies.

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