Two Clouds 8×10

I painted this the other day.  It was a balmy 50 degrees and the farmers were burning their fields off in the distance.  As soon as I got my easel prepared a single small brilliant white cloud appeared, I did my best to capture it right away before it disappeared, but then another one appeared, then another (I decided to keep it at two).  This allowed me to relax a little.  That is the thing about painting from nature, there is a push to rush and get it down before it changes.  The trick is to work fast enough to capture some of those brilliant but fleeting effects, but not so fast that your painting becomes a record of every change that occurred.

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