July 5th, 2014
Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30 in

Well, at the island a combination of bad weather and flooding high waters kept me from my initial plan of doing tons of painting. Three days drive there and back and all the business that needs attending to when you’ve been away a month have also kept me from my preferred mode of work. So I was anxious to paint, and I figured the Open Studio (which I had heard is pretty dead in the summer) would be a nice long stretch of time I could use for that purpose, even if it meant painting indoors and not out. Tons of pictures from Canada I would love to work from. So I decided to do this giant cloud, and my dock with a boat I pulled onto it and filled up with water, to prevent it from floating away.

I do not have the ability to tune things out, and there were several conversations going on in several studios around me that in spite of my lack of interest therein – oh well I’ll curtail my excuses. Wasn’t very focused, and was working out the rust.