End of day--Oklahoma prairie inspiration

End of Day, Oklahoma--9 by 12 watercolor, 140# d'Arches

I saw a cloud similar to like this yesterday, towering over Edmond in the afternoon. But after visiting my friend and oil cloudscape artist David Holland today and watching his work, I thought I'd try something different. Double inspiration--the skies and David Holland.
I decided to paint  from memory rather than trying to duplicate a photo, which makes me uptight, and also is a prescription for failure.
As David said today, it's a painting, not a photograph. This is freeing and I painted better than usual.

"Out here there's the sky," -- Terry Clark