Setting Blue Moon
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Setting Blue Moon
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
It is important as an artist to scrape your palette clean every now and again. That exercise allows you to get a fresh start. I always squeeze out a different colour to play with as well. One never knows where a bit of adventure might lead. This time I employed a squirt of Dioxazine Purple on my palette. If you look, there is a lot of purple to be found in nature.
October 2020 enjoyed two full moons during the month which is just a quirk of the 2020 calendar as if 2020 needed any more peculiarities. This full moon was from Saturday October 31st. It is called a blue moon not because of the colour but because of its rarity. Moons can actually be coloured blue through the scattering of light by smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere. People witnessed blue moons for several years after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. I got up and walked outside to admire the full moon at 4:40 am on Sunday morning. Gravity waves and deformation zones follow me around almost all of the time. I included the beautiful corona as well. Dale had the porch light on.
The light show around the blue moon was the result of diffraction of the moonlight by individual small water droplets and ice crystals in the cloud. The angular diameter of a corona depends on the sizes of the water droplets involved. Smaller droplets produce larger coronae. The corona is the most pronounced when the size of the droplets is most uniform. This particularly spectacular corona suggested that the cloud droplets were both small and uniform in size. In contrast from coronae, atmospheric halos are formed by refraction of light through comparatively large ice crystals. There is no truth to the linkage of the atmospheric phenomena with the Mexican beer although the effects can be very similar in nature.
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December 11th, 2020
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Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in ONTARIO CANADA, homepage group, of Fine Art America, during the Christmas Holidays, of 2020!
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in the RED MAPLE GALLERY, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
A Hillman
Revisiting already!
Phil Chadwick replied:
You are very kind Sunny... soon you will have some sunflowers too. Thank you!
Ken Pollard
Phil...100% agree with sunny...a standout piece of work IMO!
Phil Chadwick replied:
Oh my goodness. Thank you Ken. I never know when a piece of work will connect. Art is still a mystery for me.
A Hillman
Spectacular! New favorite...an abstract that would rock Van Gogh and reminds us all of the moments in life that are so rare and full of joy that we want to record them...and share them. Thanks, so much, Phil Chadwick, for all your beautiful work and wisdom and knowledge! Truly inspirational! l/f
Phil Chadwick replied:
I have a LED lamp now. Vincent would have had to use his candles and flammable straw hat. This painting will always bring back the memory of stadning by the lake well before dawn. I needed to include the sounds in the oils too. Thank you Sunny!
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