There’s a bit of humor in this piece where I showed the vehicle trundling down the dirt road and kicking up dust. I really like the sky. When I studied under Alex Martin, in New York, I learned how to paint skies as he was considered a sky painter. His landscapes were small, simple and very abstract against a huge sky. I bless him when I paint skies as they come very easily to me and are considered one of the most difficult subjects to paint. I rail at him when I struggle with landscape details as he didn’t deal in details, at least at that time. I was just getting good at painting seascapes on Long Island, when we moved to Oregon and I had to teach myself how to paint many shades of green foliage, fields, structures, etc. Oregon is more challenging to paint, in my opinion.

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