Cloud portraits

When I first thought about this project, I imagined that I'd be painting portraits of clouds each day. After thinking about it longer, I decided that a cloud portrait was too limiting as a concept. I want to include sky without clouds as well and a whole sky worth of clouds in later work.


This is a cloud portrait, however, and the subject sat very still in the sky while I painted it. I was facing west and there was almost no wind today at about 11:15 am. This includes the first use of cobalt blue in my palette. By the way, all my grays are mixed, no boughten grays or blacks for me!