(C) 2025 Dale DiMauro
November weather is definitely challenging. Not many people linger outside for long when the winds pick up and the sun is hidden behind clouds.
Today, nevertheless, was a blustery experience to paint outside. The clouds raced across the sky and the wind dried my paint washes immediately. Having said that, I adapted by applying smaller washes and moving more frequently to different areas of the paper.
I perched on a stone plinth and painted this view of Wantastiquet Mountain from across the Connecticut River. The sky was put down first. I used cerulean, ultramarine blue, and paynes gray combined with a mister to get the pigments to blend into cloud-like forms. I feel that the colors you see were true to what I saw out in nature.
Today, I used only two brushes to paint what I did and I am proud of that. I think this is the best stormy sky I have ever painted.
At times on your journey in life you take two steps forward and one backwards. Perhaps today was one of those days where I took a step backwards. However, I worked on three other watercolors this weekend so it is of no great loss to me.
P.S. - For some reason I had difficulty cropping the top photograph.
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