The more I look at this exercise from our Inspiration week, the more I'm learning. So I went back to another of Uma Kelkar's beautiful cloud paintings. This time I didn't just think "I want to paint clouds like hers". I dug a little deeper and took note of things that I notice in a particular painting, i.e. hard edges, very light value, some white gaps, beautifully balanced grey mixes, and painting wet on dry. So I applied some of these items to a landscape from the West of Ireland - where our clouds are very different. I like how it worked out. Very different from the clouds I painted two days ago. By the way, the last few landscapes have all been inspired by our recent trip to the Dingle Peninsula, in particular Clogher Head, which is, literally, my favourite place on earth. It's all sky, ocean and bare rocks.
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