Cloudscape 1

First in a series of mainly small paintings of skies and clouds with a view to entering the more successful ones in some "Fine Art" competitions which I haven't done for some time. I don't want to paint in just one generally specific genre like Imaginative Realism but rather to work in other areas too like I was a few years ago; I don't want all my eggs in one basket as it were.
I originally had an American water tower breaking the horizon when I was "drawing" it up but I  painted it out to make the painting less specific with little narrative content so that it is more about colour, mood and composition.
Oil on Winsor & Newton Smooth Canvas 16" x 12".