With a hurricane, what else can you do beside bake bread and listen to music and watch TV or read a book?
Paint, of course!
Below is Stage 2 of my Lavender #2 of yesterday. I worked on brushwork, details, and all those other lovely things. It is still mounted on the coroplast and taped down, but I like to see what I have by importing the image into Lightroom and then adding a frame. It does help me see things.
I am not too sure where I am at with this painting – I rather like it, but it is a bit more fiddly than I want it to be. I tend to dab – other people I know tend to use short vertical strokes. What I would like to see is an effective stroke, simple, long or short, in my own work. Not easy to do . . .
The rain is falling with a soft sound – the air is cool – and the birds outside the studio window are twittering away. Time to get away from the lights and the lavender and enjoy the peacefulness of the day.
Ink, Yarn & Beer 
You seem to have the right attitude for weathering the hurricane. The lavender looks great. Stay safe and keep painting.
I like this painting. It invites the viewer into the picture plane in a very direct way. Colors are also quite lovely.
Hi Laura Kate! Thanks! I am toning down the lavender in the second, further field . . . but we just had an earthquake along with our hurricane . . .I need to calm down!
Thanks, Anne! I am toning down the second field, further back, but for now – calming down! We just had an earthquake alongside our gentle hurricane rain . . . .
Wow. It sure it difficult to live in CA.
Nah – this is just a weird event. At least where I live, life is pretty nice.
Yes, we just heard about the earthquake. I think Mother Nature is trying to tell us something by yelling really loud. We are just getting dark skies and humidity here in Sacramento.
There is the Gaia Theory . . . I wonder.
Well that sent me into a Google search! I definitely think that humankind has an effect on our environment, but maybe not hurricanes.
It’s coming along nicely, even if the erath is shaking! Stay safe.
Thanks, Fraggy!!