Prairie Summer

This summer has been long, warm, and beautiful... the vegetation lush in spite of fewer rainy days,  the clouds spectacular.  Clouds always fascinate me and I could watch them for ages.  This evening every cloud in the sky was lit up in pink.  Set in the intense blue of the sky it was one more amazingly beautiful summer evening panorama!

Recently I have attempted to paint more skies and this one, just finished, is set on the typical prairie landscape of yellow canola with distant trees and hills.

"Prairie Clouds" acrylic on canvas, 24 x30"

a Prairie Summer

A few things really strike me about this summer - the weather has been beautifully warm, which was good for me as, due to renovations, I have had to move my painting out of doors. I am very thankful for our large gazebo which has been well used this summer as both eating area and studio.  It has been a good experience to work outside with the changing light, the bugs, the bird song and just the all-round awareness of nature.

Secondly, the clouds have consumed my curiosity to the extent that I think I must have taken upwards of 500 photos!  I have begun to paint more clouds and am looking forward to making this more of an emphasis in my acrylic and soon, I hope, oil painting.

These two small paintings [10x10" on wood panel] were done in July. They are quite different in colour and time of day - but both speak to me of our prairie summer.

I also finished one more water painting.  This was done primarily using a pouring method with liquid acrylics. 

Reflections.4,  24x30" acrylic on canvas