There is only a small number of marines among the hundreds of plein-air pastels that Theodore Lukits painted. Although he enjoyed painting the ocean, he usually preferred to depict the sunset, so he would only do a single pastel on a trip to Santa Monica or Laguna. Lukits also worked in oil on some occasions, and this may account for the relative scarcity of ocean scenes in pastel. However, Lukits did work a significant number of his pastels into larger oils as ocean scenes sold well for him in galleries, particularly in the 1960s, when marines seemed to be particularly popular.       TNL 226,   Pastel on Paper ,    9" x 13" "Reflections in the Sunset" (circa 1924, Private Collection)     TNL 112,   Pastel on Paper ,    9" x 13" "Early Moon" (circa 1928, Lukits Art Trust)     TNL 185,   Pastel on Paper ,    11" x 12" "Cloud Cover" (circa 1928, Lukits Art Trust)     TNL 225,   Pastel on Paper ,    9" x 13" "Sunset, Laguna " (c. 1924, Private Collection)       TNL 333,   Pastel on Paper ,    9" x 18" "Seaside Magic" (circa 1928, Lukits Art Trust)                       [Back to Plein-Air Pastels]