Artist: Lucy Dickens
Title: Monsoon Drama
Medium: oils
Dimensions: 24"h x 30"w
"In the midst of an abundant monsoon season, I find myself out watching the skies much more often. Thunderheads build and shift, rising higher into the heavens. As the sun drops low, she casts out the last of her brilliant light, washing these magnificent clouds in golds, oranges, and pinks.
Each evening’s dramatic display is varied from the one before, enthralling in its own way. These colorful experiences are so fleeting. Get distracted and you’ll miss her stunning crescendo in no time. As the nourishing rains begin to fall, I stretch out my arms receiving those first few big raindrops with a grateful heart." Lucy Dickens
"Monsoon Drama" is a landscape painting depicting a serene desert scene. Dominating the canvas is a vast sky filled with soft, pastel-hued clouds ranging from gentle blues and purples to warm yellows, oranges, and pinks, suggesting the sun's light playing off the atmospheric conditions. Below the dramatic sky, a series of saguaro cacti stand tall and cluster together amidst desert shrubbery. Their distinctive, vertical forms punctuate the horizon, and some cast shadows onto the ground. The vegetation is rendered with muted greens and earth tones, giving a sense of the dry, arid climate. The painting captures the tranquil beauty of the desert, emphasizing the vastness of the sky in contrast to the rugged land below.