This week’s photo comes from New Jersey, thanks to my brother. He caught the tail end of a summer storm at sunset. I love the contrast of the dark foliage around the edges with the volume of the clouds. The clouds remind me of wool roving. The color scheme would be perfect for a moody work – the purple/blue/gray and the grayed yellow.
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Wow! Drama, contrast, texture, mood … Oddly enough I see more anticipation than aftermath in this image. Thanks to nature, your brother, and you for this latest in a treasury of inspiration. Soon I’ll lose sight of that box I’ve been exiting!
As a professor of mine used to say, “what you see depends on where you stand.” My brother said the photo was post-storm but I think the color and lighting effects would be similar whether pre- or post-storm. And I’m sure there are some treasures in that box you’re leaving behind.
Wow, that’s a beautiful sight! I’m stuck painting a bedroom right now but as soon as I finish I’ll be painting sky fabric (to sell at our big quilt show). I agree with you the contrast is striking and the clouds like roving… which reminds, me I bought a bunch of gradated silver roving and haven’t used it yet…Thanks for more inspiration (and to your brother)!
If only you were painting the bedroom a sky color? What paints do you use for your sky fabric? I ask as I’ve used Mickey Lawler’s techniques for such fabric painting, and am always on the hunt for other ways to do something. Gradated silver roving sounds smashing.
When the kids were young the bedroom had a sky with clouds across the ceiling and a tree. I use Jacquard Textile Color and sometimes Setasilk for my fabric painting. Really the only difference in the way Mickey and I paint is that I usually have my fabric up off of the surface in a frame. A few of my YouTube videos show some different fabric painting techniques. I had planned to needle punch a moon with the roving, didn’t happen. Now I just seem to bring it out and caress it!
Ah, the comfort of petting one’s pretties.
That’s one dramatic cloud! And such unusual colors, as you say. Nature can teach us a lot when it comes to choosing colors.
Truly nature has a great color palette, even inn a field of weeds.