Sky study 14

...And some are ponderous.

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Just a couple of the reasons we love cats: their grace (this is couch ballet) and the reminder that it's occasionally okay to just lay down in the middle of the day. ("Occasionally" applies to us. For them, "always" is more apt.)

Yesterday was such a blustery kind of spring day. Within an hour, I was rained on, snowed on, hailed on, sleeted on, and wind-ed at.

On my way to work: looking east on Iris and 28th at 5pm. (iPhone photo from my car)

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Untitled 45

Looks like black on top left, but it's actually a midnight blue.

Found this one in the archives and simply could not resist posting it. He may have been the cutest kitten that ever existed.

(Almost) all grown up now...and napping in a box.

From Lakshadweep. The wind is so cold here today that I can't help but remember the island with great fondness.

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Boulder sunset

Today was alla prima portrait class, but a variety of factors conspired to make my painting suck: I had a migraine, class was a little shorter than normal, and there was some awful loud music playing in the place...which wasn't helping the migraine any. Anyway, it sucked and is being wiped this evening.

Instead...here, for your viewing pleasure (:D), is a piece done last summer after observing one of our (actually rare) sunsets. We normally don't get much color here, but that late afternoon was really nice.

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Persimmon 2

I've always admired how a really dark background can bring out an object so well. So many Old Masters used that device. I've only recently begun experimenting with backgrounds this dark.

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