This is the view from my Davis Mountains studio in Far West Texas one summer afternoon. I'd hiked to the studio without having a subject in mind. As I unlocked the front door, I noticed these clouds were twice the size they'd been five minutes earlier, and they were bursting out of their skins. I dashed inside, grabbed my plein air easel and the largest Pastelbord I had, then quickly set up on the studio's porch. Knowing I couldn't finish something so large and complex in an afternoon, I mapped out the shape and energy of the clouds and the shadows cast by the oak and pinion on the mountainside. I returned to the porch on successive afternoons to complete the trees and road, It's the most comfortable plein air painting I've ever done-- all I had to do was drag my easel in and out the front door whenever I wanted to paint!
artwork: 16" x 20" soft pastel on archival Pastelbord
framed outer dimensions: 24" x 30" conservation framed in elegantly carved wood molding
under non-reflective museum glass
ships free to USA destinations
introduced as a featured painting at Dallas Heritage Village Museum's invitational exhibit "Following Frank Reaugh, a Celebration of Plein Air Painting" highlighting works done on location by Texas artist Lindy Cook Severns