After the Rain © Stefanie Taranto, Oil pastel,  18.75" x 25.75" Framed

I took a road trip to Kentucky a while back. “After the Rain” is inspired by the weather's impact on the fields and sky as the miles rolled by:

The air was charged with the clarifying energy of a storm just having gone through. The voluptuous clouds over the expansive fields invited me to lay them in as if it were a down feather bed with the white reflecting all the changes on the earth below…Everything was just starting to spring.   The landscape was like visual candy with the abundant bright colors varying between pastel in the distance, to vibrant greens combined with rust-brown burgundy of the earth that had not yet sprouted, in the foreground.   A back and forth of heaven and earth depicting a moment in time.  Layer that with the sounds of nature.  Loneliness dispelled with activity as animals and humans alike emerge outside discovering the ever-changing show spring has to offer. 

Happy Memories!