Waiting For A Storm

"Waiting For A Storm"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard
My friend spent his vacation time one year chasing tornadoes.  He focused his passion and attention on Texas, where there are big skies with big storms. This was not one of the sought-after skies he was there to photograph, but a colorful one that he shared with me.

 I have a couple of other larger pieces in the works, so here's another sky for the meantime.

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Easter Grass

"Easter Grass"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard 
It's Easter, and my morning sky is mimicking the striped eggs nestled in clusters in spring's verdant grass. The bunny has delivered sweet treats and surprises for the wee ones, too.

Here is an example of my four new colours again. The green is an "I" green: Indian and Indanthrene.  I love it's freshness.

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Saturday

"Saturday"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard
Morning's primary colours, in spite of the time of day they're on display, are some of the prettiest nature has to offer. If I have to see the world at this time of day, I'm always grateful when the show is as gentile this one. 

Primaries: Naples, Inthanthrene, Quinacridone Scarlet, are the stars in this sky.  I adore using primaries and these three are quite luscious for painting sky.  Why these three?  Because the Naples doesn't turn green when it gets close to Indanthrene.  Green sky is another indicator entirely.

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Morning Light

"Morning Light"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard
The light was bright that morning. The sky hung overhead, mingling like a wet into wet watercolour of primary colours that would fade into a solitary shade of blue as soon as they dried. 

 Another day, another sky.
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Lighting the Way

"Lighting the Way"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard 
The grasses on the slope blew in the breeze while we hiked toward the top of the hill. What was on the other side would be a surprise to me and my friend. Neither of us had been here before. 

 Here's another sky for my composite piece.  Of course they are for sale individually, as well.

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Fire Down Below

"Fire Down Below"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard 
There were forest fires down on the ground as we flew overhead.  They looked small from the air, but the sky wore the residuals like ribbons and bows in her hair.  

 This is sky number 40 for the composite painting I'll compile for my show in July.  Not that I'll use all forty, fifty or sixty by then, but at least I have choices.

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New Day

"New Day"
6" x 6"
Oil on Hardboard
It was shortly after sunrise, that time when the promise of daylight comes to pass. The clouds were still wearing festive raiment from the predawn party, but would soon don daytime togs to saunter across the sky.  

Here's a new sky painting for my ongoing collection that will culminate in one big piece for a gallery exhibit in July.

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Canadian Sunset

"Canadian Sunset"
14" x 20"
Oil on hardboard
While on my Google search to find winding rivers I came upon another lovely photo.  This one was of a sky somewhere in Canada. I know—there's a LOT of sky in Canada, but I can't isolate this location except by doing eeny meeny miny moe over the map. What would be your guess?   

The sky didn't actually look like this, but it had these "bones."  I used my new Cad. Scarlet, again, with Cad. Yellow Med. and Cobalt this time. That's it. Three colors. I love the way the scarlet mixes with the blue to make the dark clouds.

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Sun's Up

"Sun's Up"
10" x  20"
Oil on wrapped canvas
Once the sun poked her head above the horizon the colours began to dissipate. It was as if her presence chased the mauves and salmons from view and only the blue was tough enough to spend the day with the robust orb. 

Sky in the same palette as yesterday's, but I tried a different format.  I enjoyed painting on the larger piece.

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Rain Across the Lake

"Rain Across the Lake"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard
I considered going out in the kayak that evening, but decided against it when I couldn't read the sky; what the clouds were telling me. It looked like it was raining across the lake, but where I was making the decision was sunlit and calm. There was no point in putting myself at risk, I'd wait until morning to paddle around the water lilies.  

 I rather like this sky.  I'm going to use these colors to make a few more.

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Diagonal Sherbet

"Diagonal Sherbet"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard
I wasn't particularly hungry when I first glanced at the sky looking like the punchbowl at a child's birthday party, but I got that way after staring at it for a while. I love what morning does to the colours she has to work with in the early hours when she thinks nobody is looking.  

Another sky for my collection. I may have figured out how to display the numerous panels!  I'm excited at the prospect.  

Primarily Sky

"Primarily Sky"
6" x 6"
Oil on panel
Time of day doesn't matter when the sky looks like this. It's going to be different in a few minutes, anyway. Nothing will be the same.  It'll either be lighter or darker, breakfast or dinner, coffee or wine.  Sky like this signals transition. 

 I painted this sky as a demo. There are several things about it that seem to be unique to me.  I'll be teaching sky in Virginia late in the Spring. One like this is a possibility.

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Rainbow Cloud

"Rainbow Cloud"
6" x 6'
Oil on hardboard
High cumulus clouds drifted over the lake that evening, but so, too, were some colorful low lying rainclouds that caught the light of the setting sun behind me. It was the strangest sight to see rainbows in the clouds that were actively dumping into the huge body of water near where I live.  

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Got Kites?

"Got Kites?"
8" x 8"
Oil on hardboard 
The prairie, vested in verdant attire, beckoned for me to run in zigs and zags with a paper kite. Spring was in the air, and soon, too, would be the carefree symbol of my joyful youth.

I long to fly a kite in the balmy skies of a month with fewer than five letters in its name. Doesn't January take her sweet time?

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Rise and Shine

"Rise and Shine"
10" x 8"
Oil on canvas panel 
My mother used to waken me and my siblings with cheerful encouragement, especially on summer mornings by saying, "Rise and shine, the day's a wasting."  I don't remember ever wasting a day as a child, or as an adult, for that matter. Nor do I remember her being so mean as to waken us at daybreak.  She was a great mother and my friend. 

I'm testing my ability to paint sky with traditional oil paints. I've used primarily water miscible paints from the beginning; however, I'm taking AND teaching a workshop in the next few months so I'll be using these to get accustomed to them — and using mineral spirits instead of water!  Yikes.

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