Adventure is the best way to learn

I absolutely love watercolors of the sky. This week I decided I would practice some paintings of clouds. I'm not entirely disappointed in them, but I think I've got a lot more practice to do. I'm hoping to get really good at these!

A Western Sky

Sunlight

Flying

 

Sunset on the Plains

"My soul is in the sky."

- A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mount Rainier

When I first moved to Washington, it was two months before the clouds dissipated enough for me to catch a glimpse of Mt. Rainier (and I almost wrecked my car when I did). The Cascade's tallest peak is visible for hundreds of miles on one of these rare clear days, and it dominates the skyline. Its size relative to its neighboring mountains is awe-inspiring, and even after a year and a half of living in the presence of this mountain, it never failed to impress me.

This painting was a quick watercolor landscape I did to remember my time there. I certainly won't miss the rain, but Washington sure is a beautiful place when you get down to it. I took the picture with my phone, which resulted in losing a lot of the detail, but I am fairly satisfied with the way the painting turned out.

"Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; 

they are the summits of ranges." - Thomas W. Higginson