Showing posts with label cloudy sky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloudy sky. Show all posts

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Thundercloud, 10x8 Original OIl on Canvas Skyscape



I love to paint stormy weather, and this thundercloud looks like it wants to produce a tornado. Florida does have exciting weather, but no hurricanes for the past ten years. I think I prefer hurricanes to the harsh winter conditions up north right now. Floridians were punished for the last hurricanes by having our insurance rates jacked up, yet when there are no disasters the rates stay up. I suppose that's happening all over the country. Some companies simply drop you after you make a claim. 

Don't I sound whiny? I just wonder if this happens everywhere, considering that all of last year it seemed there was a natural disaster somewhere every time I turned on the news. Are other states at the mercy of the insurance companies? Or are the insurance companies truly suffering from having to pay so many claims? I'd like to know.

Carmen






Saturday, February 7, 2015

Clouds in Landscape, 24x18 Oil Painting


The Pieces of 8 are studying clouds, so I did a demo of various kinds of clouds and techniques for painting them, then we all had a good time painting our own. This is one of my larger paintings, and I shall continue my cloud studies, as they are becoming fascinating to me. I've looked at clouds from both sides now...

Carmen