Today’s painting is a commission for a friend, so it’s larger, and the first landscape I’ve done in quite awhile. When I remember how I used to cry and tantrum while attempting to paint all the nuances of light on coulees, well, lets just say that I’m truly grateful that I can now approach it with a smidge of confidence.  Having been raised with this very landscape I can truly say that I can feel it in my bones.  It is such a joy, FINaLLY, to be able to paint it.