I just drove down an absolutely beautiful highway at 2:00 in the morning. It’s been rainy all day and as I was driving home these massive clouds were just rolling across the road. The moon was shining through them and every now and then I could see glimpses of clear sparkling stars shimmering in the sky. It was breathtaking. Because the moon was so bright I could see the mountains through which the road passes and great masses of clouds were just resting all over them. The clouds almost looked like they were tired and decided to take a break from the efforts of hovering in the sky.

I think sometimes that the reason nature is so fascinating is that it’s beauty is transitory. It shares with us these moments of stunning asthetic perfection and then in almost the blink of an eye it changes and we are left only with the memory and the sensation that we are part of something amazing.

Yesterday was annoying. I want to get my work into some more galleries so my Dad (who’s the marketing guy for willowrise) and I decided to drive into town to show my work to gallery owners and see if they’d take it. What we didn’t know is that all the galleries in the city are closed on Mondays. We couldn’t find a single one that was open. So annoying! We drove an hour and a half each way for nothing! So now we’re gonna have to go again tomorrow. This time however we’re going to do our homework and find out what galleries are open when so we don’t waste an entire day driving for no reason. Grrrr!

I didn’t want the whole day to be shot so when I got home I painted this. It only took maybe an hour as you can probably tell but I think it came out okay for what it is. I used turpenoid and prismacolor for the background and then just prismacolor for the forground. So the day wasn’t entirely wasted. I feel a little better.