Remember when smoke from the Canadian wildfires came all the way down to the Florida panhandle in July? I was at the beach then and it made for some colorful skies. I have Photoshopped some clouds into a photo I took at the time and will amp up the color shifts for this painting. What I loved about the scene is the intense light reflection in the water. The painting in progress is 30”x40” in oils. The photo of my palette shows how I arranged my gray mixes in the same order as they would be painted on the canvas, just to keep me from getting lost.
