Wednesday, September 3, 2008

August Rains

August is wet in Mexico. You´ll never know when it will be sunny or raining, but you´ll get plenty of both, depending on what path storms and hurricanes decide to take.
I painted this plein air piece from a balcony of a friend´s house in Tapalpa, in Central Mexico. The clouds hurried across the sky and the shadow patterns on the ground changed rapidly. Luckily I had a previously stained linen panel with me, which made the painting go much faster.

2 comments:

sandy said...

The sky in this is incredible! I'm wondering how Ike will impact where you are weather wise...

Beautiful painting Ilse...

Sekhar said...

Great artist you are. And I do love rains a lot :)
Just tumbled upon your blog. Great work. Keep it up.