Mary Romer, member 50,765, wrote telling us about cloud paintings she has completed this year whilst living through these extraordinary times as well as the Cloud Garden Art Initiative.
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October 21, 2020
October 20, 2020
Artist Norma Greenwood created the public art installation entitled “Cloudscapes” which is showing in the Jacksonville, Fl. International Airport.
October 16, 2020
Tim Blofeld, member 45,721, sent us the link to this video by Bartosz Wojczyński of a lenticular cloud above Teide taken seamlessly from day to night.
October 14, 2020
Finally, there are cards available for everyone who’s into Basset Hounds and clouds. What took so long? Find out more…
October 13, 2020
Louise Morgan, member 28,857, sent this painting in response to a recent Cloud-a-Day. She paints from her subconcious and gets lost in the process. She told us her daughter thought this looked like a sheep.
October 9, 2020
Jeremy Prentice produced this immersive sky meditation as a gift to his friends and family. He told said “A lil’ present for my kinfolk, friends, and friends-to-be in ole Melbourne town (or anyone and everyone for whom it offers value)
October 8, 2020
In October’s Cloud of the Month, we show how to cook up a nourishing cloud dish…
October 6, 2020
Regina Calton Burchett, member 51,261, sent us this pastel painting of the Blue Ridge Mountains and corresponding poem she wrote to accompany it.
October 2, 2020
Lance Wardle heard about the Cloud Appreciation Society from a friend while they were discussing how they had used their time during the ‘stay at home’ period earlier this year.
October 1, 2020
Matt Minshall (Member 7,721) shows how architects through the ages have drawn inspiration from the sky…
September 30, 2020
Why does everyone love a sunset? We think we’ve worked it out…
September 29, 2020
Roberta Grandi, Society member 7665, sent her latest cloud inspired oil painting.
September 25, 2020
Cloud enthusiast, Alexandra Ashby sent us her first video of clouds over the east coast. As one viewer commented “such dreamy clouds”
September 22, 2020
Cathy Reincke sent her painting, “Spilled Milk in the Red Cedar” which was inspired by a photograph taken by Fay Thompson of the Red Cedar River near Colfax, WI.
September 15, 2020
David Oscarson, supporting member 40,914, recently completed this video. He explained “in this video are time-lapse videos of clouds moving over the Mojave Desert, flora, fauna (wild horses) and cloud panoramas. I have expanded not only on cloud structures,but what is under the clouds and sky”.
September 11, 2020
Celia Parker, member 38266, often paints pictures of Dartmoor but thinks this is the first time she’s got the sky and the clouds just right.
September 8, 2020
Sarah McDougall, member 47,052, having talked to the curator of the Gathering Clouds exhibition in Christcurch, NZ contacted us to tell us about this exhibition in Rochester, New York.
September 4, 2020
Sofie Dieu (member 45,721) is an artist who uses ink to draw and paint nebulas and other cloud realms.
August 28, 2020
Robert Austin, member 43,207, recently sent his painting “Shower Cloud, Bamburgh Castle” in response to a Cloud-a-Day which featured a watercolour by Van Gogh.
August 26, 2020
It’s rare, it’s fleeting, it’s a fluctus cloud…
August 25, 2020
Christine Chatterton, member 52,072, sent us this photo and poem that she wrote.
August 21, 2020
Kay Söderlund, Society member 51,007, recently told us about a vital research project covering more than 20 years which has precisely measured the cooling rate in the upper atmosphere, about 90km above Antarctica.
August 18, 2020
Louise Morgan, Society member 28,857, contacted us following a recent Cloud-a-Day on the subject of the English Romantic landscape painters JMW Turner and John Constable were notorious rivals but who both loved painting clouds and the challenge of painting rainbows.
August 14, 2020
Andy Sallee, Society member 37,600, sent us this video taken whilst flying over and ‘surfing’ through clouds above the Northwestern Continental USA
August 11, 2020
Robyn Bartlett (member 24340) and Kim Stirling heard this interesting Australian radio segment combining the sounds of the Aurora Australis with a piano.
August 7, 2020
Sarah Howerd, member 46,352, found this Procreate painting tutorial by James Julier. She told us “This video is like a mix of Turner, Constable, and Bob Ross if they’d had a YouTube channel together
August 4, 2020
Robert Thurston recently sent this pastel of a cloud formation he saw.
July 31, 2020
Richard Bacon, member 51546, contacted us to tell us about an exhibition “Gathering Clouds” which is currently running at the Christchurch Art Gallery in New Zealand
July 28, 2020
Barry Aldous, member 43125, sent his recent timelapse video. He told us “I was attracted by the combination of cloud patterns and the confusing direction of travel!”
July 24, 2020
This painting was sent to us by artist, Amy Szwaya
July 21, 2020
Cloud of the Month for July is a Cumulonimbus with no interest in social distancing…
July 21, 2020
Rob Thompson (Society Member 28), sent us this documentary and told us “this is a special extended version of the Baddog Productions’ documentary “Secrets of a Strange Cloud” which we have put together for the Cloud Appreciation Society”
July 17, 2020
This pastel painting by Regina Calton Burchett is entitled “Morning Sky – Sail Away”
July 14, 2020
Keen cloudspotter, Roberto Porto, sent us his latest timelaspe video “el cielo afortunado”, the lucky sky, made completely in the island of Tenerife, Spain.
July 10, 2020
Madeleine Russell, of RAL Space recently contacted us to invite our members to take part in our online citizen science project.
July 7, 2020
Earlier this year Ann Kraus was featured in a solo show at Pleiadles Gallery in New York City which was attended by a few members of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
July 3, 2020
Massimiliano Squadroni sent this timelapse from a video which was activated last year thatnks to a crowdfunding campaign.
June 30, 2020
Claudia Zeiske told us about Under One Sky, “People log their miles and send a picture of their sky to Artist Iman Tajik, who will then create an art work from all of our clouds”
June 26, 2020
Photographers all around the world have been sharing their weather photos, some taken during lockdown, as part of the Weather Photographer of the Year 2020 competition – closing date is 6th July!
June 23, 2020
Cloud enthusiast, Bill Whitcher, recently came across this article on the Atlas Obscura website which he felt is an excellent description of clouds through space and art
