I am in the process of painting this 20" x14" watercolor to explore the dramatic effect created by a transitional weather front. As a child I remember my mother getting all excited about a sun shower when the rain was coming down but the sun would pop out from behind a dark Michigan storm cloud sending a beam of light from the heavens. It was a reassurance that this storm too would pass. The American southwest landscape art tradition as exemplified by such greats Thomas Moran and Wilson Hurley made magnificent use of these weather phenomena to great and dramatic effect.