Weekly Warm-up #4

This painting started as a fascination with the desert sky. We drove down to Monument Valley and stopped at this jewelry stand. The clouds there were so fun I had to try to paint them. The trickiest part of this painting was getting the color of the shadows right. I worked to capture the color under the roof of the stand, so that it would read correctly as shadow and give the viewer a feeling of depth.

Monument Valley Summer Market

11" x 14"

Oil on Board