Theodore Lukits loved drama and so he rushed out to paint when cloudy skies allowed him to cloak the sun or moon in a misty veil. When he was high in the mountains, he spent many nights painting the moon as the cloud cover alternately revealed and covered the golden orb. While John Constable (1776-1837) and a few other painters had done cloudscapes in series, few - if any - did the number of works devoted solely to the depiction of the sky. These moody, often haunting scenes show Lukits' appreciation for nature's most fleeting moments.       TNL 169,   Pastel on Paper,    11" x 15" "Dark Moon" (circa 1924)     TNL 182,   Pastel on Paper,    11" x 15" "Midnight Mood " (circa 1924)   TNL 546,   Pastel on Paper,    11 " x 15" "Moon's Veil" (circa 1926) TNL 179,   Pastel on Paper,    11" x 15" "Shooting Stars" (circa 1926) TNL 556,   Pastel on Paper,    11" x 15" "Tumbling Clouds" (circa 1925) TNL 178,   Pastel on Paper,    11" x 15" "Rising Moon" (circa 1925) TNL 545,   Pastel on Paper,    11" x 15" "Moonlit Clouds" (circa 1925) TNL 554,   Pastel on Paper,    11" x 15" "Emerging Moon" (circa 1925)     [Back to Plein-Air Pastels]