Monday, July 27, 2009

Windblown


Good morning. This pastel painting is a new experience for me. I decided to try to paint loosely and without a lot of detail. It reminds me of a sunflower blowing in the wind but the colors are not those usually associated with sunflowers. Sometimes it is freeing to do something no one expects from us, isn't it?

Monday, July 6, 2009

Thunderhead


This picture was inspired by a photograph I saw in a magazine. Nature provides us with so many beautiful images as well as questions. Why is this thundercloud orange and purple? Was the sun way up high over white clouds and a cold front began rolling in low from somewhere? What did it look like as a person on the earth stared up above? Did they just see the purple bottom but not the plume of orange and white above it? The perspective I chose was one of a person on a hill overlooking the valley who could see all of it. In our own lives, we often have a gorgeous "top plume" that we present to the world, but we can have a purple gathering of emotions beneath, can't we? Thanks for tuning in.