Sky study 18

This one started out by my feeling bored with making blue-sky paintings and frustrated by a couple of skies that hadn't worked out. So I got that "screw it" attitude and decided just to put down some outrageous colors. Sometimes that attitude (the mentality of what have I got to lose, since it's all coming out bad anyway) creates good things. I ended up with a secondary-colors scheme, in spite of having given color harmony no thought. The darkest values are very dark green and purple. And then that final little touch of yellow-green--it was just crying out for it. Once I put it in, the painting resolved and I heaved a huge sigh of relief and was able to put the pastels away, turn off the lights, and leave the studio for the night.

Mojito looking bored...and scruffy.

In Jaipur. A historic cart wheel (not actually in use anymore).

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Sky study 16

Mellow. No particular place to go...

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From the archives: Rumi as a baby, asleep between two couch cushions:

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It seems others have clouds in mind these days too. Here's a particularly unusual example. (They say they're smiley faces. They look a bit more like a grimace to me, probably the best one can do when faced with real London skies day after day.)

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Sky study 9

This is a soft painting, but not as fuzzy as it appears on screen.

But here is something fuzzy:

Fang says hi.

Local entertainment: running alongside a jeep.

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