I love watching clouds wispily pass overhead. But wanting to represent them led me graphically towards forms I could cut out, stack, and arrange to gain depth. I chose to work in a cartoon-like style. To portray the imaginative nature of clouds, I didn’t need to restrict my pallet to whites and greys. I chose warm, playful colors. Since first hearing of UFOs, I imagined they might hide in clouds to observe humans. In fact, humans have spent millennia thinking about joining the clouds, about flying. As I researched the many ways people have attempted to fulfill this dream, I found da Vinci’s drawings of winged men and a helicopter, photos of early daredevil aeronauts and gas-filled zeppelins, rocket car toys, Charles Schulz’s Snoopy flying his doghouse, and a flying saucer. All the colors and images emphasized our desire to dream and build, so I added “imagine” in plastic letters.