Painting Clouds – 7/14

The weather report said there would be a 60% chance of rain on Monday and when we got up there were lots of clouds. It was one of those partly sunny, partly cloudy days so Jason decided to use this opportunity to show us how to paint clouds. It was a lovely morning where we set up to paint that day about five minutes from home. Here he is doing a painting demo with Corciano in the background. I also included a picture of Jeffrey painting Corciano and Robert painting under a tree out of the sun. Here’s my painting from the morning.

After lunch, I took a little walk down the road a ways and I found a nice spot of Corciano where some others had set up. I liked the cloud patterns and moved over and set up at this new spot. Just as I was blocking in (painting) the sky, the thunder started. I said to myself, nahhh, it’s not going to rain! Well that was wishful thinking. It clouded over real fast and next thing we know, it started raining. Here’s a picture of Jen trying to quickly put away her French easel. Notice my umbrella covering her block of water color paper. I also took a picture of Aprile folding up her easel. The pavement was just barely wet for the photo. When I finished packing up my stuff, the rain was coming down in buckets. It was too warm for hail but the drops were huge. Everyone got soaked to the bone by the time all the gear was packed and everyone got into the vans. Here’s the scene I was going to paint (minus the telephone pole and wires) when I got interrupted by the storm. It’s amazing how quickly the weather changed.



We headed for the monastery where several of the men are staying where Jason did a critique of everyone’s paintings from the morning. It was a warm rain so no one got cold from being wet. By the time we finished the critique, the sun was back out and many of us had dried off.