“Before the Storm”

“Before the Storm”, Open Acrylic on Canvas, 12″ x 24″

I was at the Black Mountains overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, milepost 342.2.  My intention was to paint a sunset, so I set up around 5pm and started blocking in the shapes using darker than normal midtones anticipating sundown.  When plein air painting, I paint for three hours and stop.  Two hours in with storm clouds building it was obvious that a colorful sunset was not in the cards.  Oh well . . .