End of the End Cafe - Original

The original pen & watercolor is in the artist's private collection. Giclees are also available. A Powerful and Dramatic End Painted on location in the rain in March 1983, this pen & ink watercolor captures the tense moments as powerful wind driven waves battered the Huntington Beach Pier, with the End Cafe ready to fall into the ocean at any moment. Early that windy and wet March morning, I had emerged from my 5th & Walnut corner studio/home adjacent to the old Surf Theater planning to run an errand in the Ford pick-up. Turning the corner from Walnut on to 5th St., I couldn't believe what I saw. Huge waves were crashing up and over the pier's end. The churning, dirty, green brown sand filled "white water" raged along the pier's underside as it rolled to shore, tearing away pilings and leaving the End Cafe dangling precariously, ready to fall into the surf at any moment. Seeing this I immediately returned inside to get my oil painting gear and set out to capture the scene o