I have had so much fun painting the sky!! I understand what it means now, "sky's the limit", because the sky truly is captivating, incredibly detailed and diverse, yet so beautifully magical to paint because I can take so much artistic license. I've always been fascinated with the sky. One of my favorite pastimes as a child was to lay on the sidewalk outside our home in the Mojave Desert and watch the clouds pass by. When it was very hot, which was most of the time, I would close my eyes and wait for each cloud to give me just a few seconds of reprieve and I would lay there and sigh with each moment of coolness. For reasons I can't explain, I actually have believed that painting the sky would be much more difficult than painting a person. Over the years as I have developed my skills, I have continued to add the sky and the landscape into my paintings of people. I am thrilled to report I was wrong, the heavens, all alone, in all it's glory, I have found is incredibly easy and joyful and comforting to paint.
I'm so thankful to also have three new figurative paintings on the schedule AND two incredible commissioned portraits with exceptionally beautiful people, one of which I have already started (and it is a stunner, if I don't say so myself). It seems to me that the more I push myself to grow as an artist, the richer and more wonderful my whole life experience becomes.
