his is one of two color pencil works in this collection. The subject is of no special importance. I was looking for someone to draw using color pencil and came upon this young man in an OUT magazine. The original photo was black and white, so I decided to give the picture a golden tone. That was not entirely successful. At this time, I wasn't very good at developing the entire work simultaneously. Usually, I finished the figure, then I'd try to fit a background to it. That bad habit caused real trouble here. The original background was a failure because I wasn't familiar with the special qualities of color pencil. Still, the figure was too good to abandon. Consequently, I cut the figure out of the original using a scalpel, then rubber cemented it onto a new piece of paper. Then the background was put on using pastel. The cloud effect was an accident, leading to the title.