This painting is based on an actual sky seen off Linda and Dan's deck in Bodega Bay on Christmas Day, 2008. This photo tried to take it all in, the unusually massive dark clouds encroaching on white poofy clouds and blue sky. Ever so faintly, you can make out the distant headlands of Point Reyes (20 miles distant) in the bottom left. We've not seen a sky like this in the twelve years since. -- Dan Rohlfing