painted desert, rain, and rainbows

new painting
Originally uploaded by megan_n_smith_99

this is a painting i finished over the weekend. i believe it is 5 x 7" but i don't want to get up to go look right now. as usual it looks good here but better in person. it's acrylic which is hard to photograph being reflective. also it seems some of the subtle color shifts get lost. but oh well, i keep painting! the one i am working on now is large (10 x 20" - what do you mean that is not large? well, it is for ME.)

when i was 7 years old my family drove from maryland to washington state. we started out a little before christmas, spent christmas in indiana, and new year's in reno. when we got to the painted desert, it rained. and rained. and rained and rained and rained. so i guess my 1st experience with the desert was not typical, but i do recall it quite well. there were lots of rainbows, even double rainbows.

i was watching a show on the discovery channel the other day that pointed out that for double rainbows one rainbow is reversed (one will be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and the other will be violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.) that is fascinating and i guess i never noticed that before, being just bowled away in general the few times i have seen a double rainbow.

there are so many things i want to paint, draw, and knit. i wish there were more hours in the day! sometimes i think it would be nice not to have to sleep, but actually i love sleeping, so i would be missing out.