This week we enjoyed a full-on rain storm. Very welcome. It wouldn’t be newsworthy if it wasn’t California. Seems a good time to feature a few of my rainscapes. It’s always an evocative subject for paintings, what with the mood they convey and the wonderful refections in color and shape, perfect for an impressionist painter like myself. Check them out, or scroll straight to the bottom and check details for our next show, just a week away.

Here’s daughter Acacia, visiting from her home in Grand Rapids where they get plenty of rain and snow. Finding much to love about this piece, she took it home.  For a better view, check it here.

Here’s a large one, Taking Rain in Stride 1, telling a story, perfect for a wide wall. Check below for how it was made.

I’d had “Her and Him 7” for some years and it was time to paint over it. Actually, it had begun as a commission but, oddly, the couple opted for a different piece instead. So I turned it on its side and began to think how it would look with rain.

As you can see, the basic color harmonies in the first piece served the second admirably.

The abstract elements and the general direction, once vertical, now horizontal, also served the composition well.

The painting is available and will be featured in our coming show.

Another, along the same lines, and done around the same time, is Taking Rain in Stride, 2. I have pictures of the process, and for this one a video of its making as well. Actually, there are two, one a 20-second time lapse, the other a full 30 minutes for anyone really into it. Click on the links for each of these on my YouTube channel.

Once again, I decided I’d had this abstract forest long enough, and I needed a canvas for a new idea.

The original colors served well for the new creation, providing a strong autumn mood in a city somewhere . . . doesn’t matter where.

This painting will also be included in the show.

Then there’s the newest creation along this line, in process right now. Maybe a little hard to see here with all the wet oil paint glistening, but it should be dry and available by the time of the show.

Here’s the show announcement. For any nearby, it is as much an open house as anything, a gathering for friends, whether we’ve yet met or not.

For those at a distance, everything is viewable on our respective websites.

For the show, and starting now, everything is on sale. That means 20 percent off the website prices for Anne’s work, and 50 percent off the marked prices for all originals on mine.

Here is Anne’s website: annesprints.com.

Here is mine: hyattmoore.com.

Would be great to see you, or hear from you.