I recently arrived back on Maui where I spend winters. There are many subjects I will be working on this winter that span multiple islands here and I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to explore my subjects outdoors, over the winter. But it’s always a challenge to get back into the creative flow in the studio after being uprooted, packing and shipping all the unfinished works. Sometimes I will start some small pieces just to get the energy flowing like the pastel landscape above, of a cloud merging into a hillside at the cloud line, 7.5 by 11 inches.