52 Week Creativity Challenge, Week 6- "Rain or Shine"

"Rain or Shine"  Gauche & acrylic paint on quartzite rock
by. S. Clark

This week's creativity challenge prompt was "Rain or Shine." I had hoped for a bit of sunlight so I could photograph something depicting rain or shine but the weather was not cooperative.  So, I decided to paint something instead.  I don't happen to have any canvases right now, and hunting for some suitable surface, I happened upon a rock.  We have rocks all over our house because my husband likes to go rock hunting in the lower part of our property.  

This rock mostly likely was deposited here during the Missoula Flood, which was at the end of the last ice age. I have no idea when the last ice age was, so I just looked it up.  Wikipedia states that it was during Holocene Epoch and was approximately 11,700 years ago.  I know about the Missoula Flood because we took some rocks we found to a geology professor at the local community college.  He was thrilled to find people with any interest in rocks.  He also told us most of our rocks were quartzite, which is very common in our area. Quartzite is a metaphoric rock, which means it was formed under high pressure.  Mr. Geology professor was very informative.  

Now that I think about it, a painting on a canvas that is 11,700 years old is pretty epic.