#1271 Night watch. Mixed media on solid pine panel, 14×24″. $250.
This is the last of the current batch of cloud-shaped paintings Theoretically the shape is great for a kids room, but not necessarily the poem written in it, if you want your child to ever sleep:
Night Watch
Stars between clouds
a night to stay up and watch
until the sun rises.
One of the things that didn’t get on camera when I was taking photos of my Paint-the-night class was that earlier in the afternoon Rick (Rick Archer, President of Moreno Valley Cultural Arts Foundation and Vanguard Gallery) and I had hung up a 14-painting solo show on the left wall.
<Sigh> this is by far the first time that I have put up a solo show and promptly forgotten to take any photos of it. Senior moment!
Blissfully I was passing not far from the gallery on Monday morning and (seeing as I’m on the advisory committee and one of the tutors and I have a key to the gallery) stopped in to rectify this. The show will be up through August and there will be a reception on August 19th, 7-8pm. Rick should have the labels up by then! Actually many of these are available through my Etsy store at the moment (though it might take a little longer than promised to ship….).
This Newsletter is a lot about their upcoming cloudwatching vacations. However, you just have to see June’s Cloud of the Month, it’s truly amazing. If I painted that, no one would believe me!
#1259 Outreach. Mixed media on pine panel. 14×24″. $250.
“Outreach” is clearly a sibling of “Reaching”, that I posted last week. The main difference is that this is the first of a series of cloudscapes on a cloud-shaped support. I have some friends who do woodworking and they carved out a few clouds for me. I’m happy that with the way I’ve photographed this one you can really see the texture.
Outreach on the wall.
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale has demarcated the Karman Line – which lies at an altitude of 100 kilometers (330,000 feet; 62 miles) above the Earth’s sea level – as the boundary where space begins. But, NASA spokesperson Dan Huot explains from a physical science’s perspective that “there is no hard-definable point where space begins; the atmosphere…
The Cloud Appreciation Society Newsletter is always an engaging read.
#1258 Reaching. Mixed media on panel, 14×11″ $180.
Here is one where I went kind of outside the bounds of color combinations that the sky and clouds actually do. I named it “Reaching” because I felt that the red cloud was reaching up and out of the painting. Now that I revisit this, I see things that I did not intend to put in this painting. What do you see in it?
One of my more abstract paintings – or is it….
