The Last Moment

The Last Moment

14" X 11"

PastelIt was a great day for thunderstorms...in the distance. We got some nice rain in the afternoon, but the huge anvil heads, like this one, passed us by. But what a view. I only had about five minutes to run into the house and grab my pastels before this one disappeared. I tried my blue paper this time, and I think that caught the light of twilight well. The grey appeared to grow out of the muted blue in the way the clouds do when you can't quite tell whether or not you're seeing sky or a storm. I tried some bright colors for the light on the clouds this time, rather than my usual white or light yellow. It was so fun to add those hints of pink!

Sunlit Thunderheads

I did this pastel of clouds in the few moments I had before the sun set and the thunderheads grew. There was so much contrast and shifting shadows that it was a rush to try and capture it all. I'll have to create a series of these clouds-there's just so many here in Texas, and they shift into even greater versions of themselves every second.

Summer Sunset

It was just one of those moments that catches you by surprise. I had set out to do a Texas landscape, and originally started drawing a different part of the view. I just happened to turn around for a second and then there it was, this brilliant moment just staring at me. This is what art is to me: it's those moments when you know you've just seen something unique, something that's never happened before and, unless you capture it, won't ever happen again.

(p.s. better image coming soon)