"Father's Day Rainbow"

photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

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All is good out here on the prairie this spring - now summer is here and the native pastures here are picking up steam!  Its been a fairly dramatic here with the sky and weather as well; the clouds across the valley from the studio are beginning to take over my efforts with the camera and the easel.  

 

"Breaking Clouds Over the Rookery"

oil painting - © Bruce A. Morrison

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I've been working with the sky out front on the easel as well as with the camera - this painting was my first plein air work in quite some time...it is easy to just sit out on the studio deck and paint away...oh I still get distracted constantly but it sure is convenient just outside the studio door!

On the studio deck!

 

I've looked at the rookery across the valley each spring and summer and always wanted to see if I could paint it in some way.  The breaking clouds one day this spring was the answer and I was lucky enough to be able to take advantage of it! 

 

"Valley Rain"

photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

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But its really amazing what the weather will create for the "eyes"!  Whether it was the rainbow I barely caught in time, or the "Valley Rain" system that knocked the rainbow out of the sky and drenched me as I was trying to hide under the eaves of the corn crib!  Whatever and whichever - they were all fun to watch and do!

 

Hope to see you on the Tallgrass this summer - take care!