Artists Of Texas Contemporary Paintings and Art

I love the way the colors show off on sunny days.  We get the variations of how a color appears in sunlight and shade, which makes for wonderful harmonies of warm and cool relationships.  But what about cloudy days?   I admit I'm usually not thrilled to find the clouds have rolled in and look like they're going to dominate, but I know there's much to be learned by painting under this circumstance.  First off, color is far more grayed and subtle.  Value separations are much closer, and shapes don't jump out with interesting patterns to improvise with, as they do on sunny days.  Painting must have some kind of contrast for it to become interesting.  On a gray day we have to look more closely for these interesting contrasts.  Lacking the modeling of light and shade, form is reduced to silhouettes with enough value difference to play against each other by overlap.  The edges of shapes are softer adding a bit of mystery to the mood, but i...