Big sky

(C) 2016 Dale DiMauro

Recently, I tried my hand at a dramatic sky painting. To capture the sky with some sort of mastery is no easy accomplishment in watercolor. However, painting in the ribbon of landmass solidified the painting and provided the scale for the sky.

The inspiration for this picture came from last summer's trip to Maine. Late in the day, near Bar Harbor with all the heavy humidity in the air, even up in Maine, a storm had just passed through. The result was the warm glow of the late day sun.

It seems important to provide some sort of definition to the underbelly of big cloud masses which strengthens the perspective in landscape paintings.