Cold Front Wake Acrylic Print

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This was the way the post cold frontal cloud looked around 8:30 pm on the evening of Wednesday June 10th, 2015. The light, colours and clouds were all fleeting. There was quite substantial tooth to this canvas and it really grabbed the paint.

The higher bands of altocumulus were roughly parallel to the frontal surface which I presume they were riding. The lower, undulating snakes of stratocumulus fractus were parallel to the northwesterly winds. The winds were certainly stronger aloft than they were at the surface. Otherwise the sky was rather chaotic and colourful. Apparently there was a tornado with a supercell near Keswick when this cold front passed through. The cell that crossed Ottawa produced hail.

I paint outside - nothing between my eyes and the inspiration. That special connectivity gets into the pigments and you quickly realize that we are all stewards of the land, privileged to appreciate its beauty during our lifetime but responsible for leaving the environment better off for the future and all inhabitants... Phil was born and raised along the St. Lawrence of Ontario, Canada and studied at Queens University as a nuclear physicist. A meteorologist for Environment Canada for 35 years, Phil specializes in severe weather and training. Remote sensing is his forte - you might want to see a tornado before you die... but not just before you die! He has farmed, raised bees, written books and articles, lectured and instructed...