A new gray

Monday, November 28th was a transitional day of clouds and breeze. We are on our way to a cold front coming through on Tuesday with heavy rain and dropping temperatures.


I've gotten into a gray rut by mixing French ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson and cadmium yellow light together. To break out of this habit I mixed French ultramarine with cadmium red and cadmium yellow deep to create the gray in this painting. See any difference?


These soft low cumulus clouds were in the northwest on the 28th at 1:45 pm with peeks of blue sky between. With the wind they were moving steadily northeast at about 15 mph.