For years I painted dramatic, cloudy skies from photos often taken from the deck of my south-facing home or from the passenger seat on road trips with my husband. During my career as an art educator, I taught painting and color theory, and when I discovered narrow canvases in a local art store, I got the idea of adding sidebars of deconstructed color to my large oil paintings. I then had these sidebars finished with an automobile clear coat to symbolize the fact that, as commuters, we often see the landscape second-hand.