Thunderstorm Greys
	The idea for this set started in the summer of 2003 after I had moved to the gulf coast of Florida. I spent every afternoon driving about 50 miles from my shop in Sarasota to a house I was staying in Tampa. Inevitably there would be a thunderstorm along the way. I became enamored of the color of these storms, the greys were incredible. There were blue-greys that just faded out. There were purpley blue greys that warmed and became brownish around the edges. There were deep ominous reds that lightened to dirty pinks. The subtlety was amazing and I had to try to figure out how to get these colors.
	I already made a couple of the colors that I was seeing, a group of blue greys and a deep, almost black red violet that made some warm purpley greys. I spent quite a bit of time mixing sample colors in every way I could think of. Some were close to what I had in mind, most of them were not.
	540-543: The first group that I had success with was getting a strong intense blue that held its own as it darkened. As it lightened I finally figured out how to get that dirty brownish feel of the storms.
	670-674: The next color that I worked on was a purple that almost went to a yellow as it lightened. There were many attempts at this range of color. Sometimes the color would be to bright and intense, to fake. While there can be an almost unnatural quality to the intensity of the thunderstorm colors it still has an earthiness to it that was hard for me to match. Finally I arrived at this range that holds its essence well and can be tweeked with layerings of more intense colors below it or scumbled on top.
	680-684: The other group that I made specifically in this thunderstorm range was this group of dark reds that became purer and less earthy as they lightened.
	230-233: A group that starts with a very dark, almost black, red violet and makes a set of reddish greys as it lightens.
	540-544: A set of dark blue greys. Great as a base sky color for those sun challenged days.
	422-423: These are a mixed green grey. Quite wonderful for the yellow of the sun hitting off the clouds and being influenced by the surrounding blue to make a soft shimmering green/grey.