End me if you&#8217ve read this ahead of, but it&#8217s raining. I like these spring rains it&#8217s chilly but not cold, and the crops start off their rebirth. But as Ken DeWaard suggests, who requires an additional gray portray?

Essentially, I disagree. Sea fog can be pretty attractive, as I hope I&#8217ve shown under. And if you don&#8217t believe that me, request the terrific Intimate painter Caspar David Friedrich.

Portray rainbows is tough. They&#8217re luminous, shimmering, and there&#8217s definitely no shift in benefit. Double rainbows are even tougher they have a a little darker passage concerning the coloration bands, which appears to be like ridiculous in paint. Not that there&#8217s everything erroneous with currently being preposterous.

Frederic Church pulled off a excellent rainbow in Rainy Season in the Tropics, but that is one more of his tremendous studio blockbusters. Mine was painted fast at the conclude of a really putting on lockdown in El Chaltén, Argentine Patagonia. It&#8217s a wholly distinctive form of painting. (And, indeed, I can paint depth when I want to.)

That working day commenced with a halfhearted rain and moved to a downpour, a lot as yesterday and the day prior to (and so quite a few other times this spring) have performed listed here in Maine. It&#8217s not possible to paint outdoor in these disorders, even in oil. The mist beads up on your palette and emulsifies with your paint. So, on that day, I painted through a window. The angle wasn&#8217t wonderful, and I only caught a modest smidgeon of sky, which is why it has that deep central vee. Nevertheless, the points that make a difference are all there: the southern beeches, the pinnacle rock formations, and, of course, the rainbow.

My 2024 workshops:

• Painting in Paradise: Rockport, ME, July 8-12, 2024.
• Sea & Sky at Schoodic, August 4-9, 2024.
• Uncover your genuine voice in plein air: Berkshires, August 12-16, 2024.
• Artwork and Experience at Sea: Paint Aboard Schooner American Eagle, September 15-19, 2024.
• Immersive In-Person Workshop: Rockport, ME, October 7-11, 2024.

The submit It&#8217s wicked hard to paint a rainbow appeared to start with on Carol L. Douglas.