This was painted outdoors, on site at Deer Lagoon on Whidbey Island, WA. A beautiful day with dramatic skies. The clouds were huge and ranged from pure white to dark gray and moved fast across the landscape. Down in the lagoon below as the tide went out, the reflections of the clouds were caught between the islands of sand. A beautiful and challenging landscape to paint due to the quick changing nature of the subject. I loved the varied shapes of the clouds and had a lot of birds and their calls keeping me company as I painted this out on the dike.