I can spend hours looking at the sky and the ever-changing clouds. Especially, I love sunsets. They make me smile inside. Maybe because of this emotional attachment or just because of a visual pleasure, a few years back I started putting more emphasis on the sky of my landscape paintings. At first I was terrified of painting clouds. Once on canvas, they never looked as I “painted” them in my head; most of the time my painted clouds appeared very amateurish, kind of childish. But I kept trying.