Morning Cumulus Fractus
by Phil Chadwick
Buy the Original Painting
Price
Not Specified
Dimensions
18.000 x 14.000 x 1.000 inches
This original painting is currently for sale. At the present time, originals are not offered for sale through the Phil Chadwick - Website secure checkout system. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original.
Click here to contact the artist.
Title
Morning Cumulus Fractus
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
A summer Sunday morning caught my eye. Cumulus fractus in the morning can often signal an unstable air mass. The rising thermals of moist air parcels from the surface mix with drier air aloft. Warmth was leaving my swimming pool as evidenced by the curls of rising vapour. It had been a cool night for late June but maybe the water was warmer than normal as well. I had been swimming every day since May 15th.
The clouds are shaped by even subtle variations in the relative winds within the atmosphere. These minor wind shears produce relative vorticity centres at all angles and orientations in the atmosphere. The cloud shapes created are the fuel for the imagination. I painted swallows, galloping horses, sunfish, gold fish and even the Starship Enterprise. They are all there along with lots of other shapes left for the imaginative mind.
The large scale and highest deformation zone in the painting was related to the "s-shaped" pattern typically found within a sharp and narrow upper ridge. The more distance and thicker layer of moisture on the western horizon was the warm conveyor belt deformation zone with the approaching summer system.
There is a reason for every piece of cloud and moisture in the atmosphere. The shape tell the story of the winds and the winds tell us of differential advection in the horizontal and even the vertical planes. Thus you can even deduce changes in stability as well as temperature. The atmospheric book is constantly being rewritten and updated. I enjoy reading and painting it every day. Life is very good.
Uploaded
February 4th, 2016
Statistics
Viewed 436 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 03/24/2024 at 3:48 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments (1)
Susan Esbensen
A colorful Rorschach cloud test with great energy and texture Phil!
Phil Chadwick replied:
Thank you Susan... there are shapes in that painting that I didn't intend as well - happy accidents if you like :>))