Linda Bailey, member 54,891, recently came across this article on the Science News website about the effect of wildfire smoke on cumulus clouds.
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The delicate process of fog collection is as beautiful as you might imagine. It’s also a sustainable way of harvesting water in drought-stricken areas of the country. Explore the process with Dr. Daniel Fernandez (member member 45,058) of Cal State University, Monterey Bay.
Sherwin Berger, member 18,239, sent us his cloud inspired piece, “Cloud Warriors of the Sky”
Running from 30th September 2021 to 16th January 2022, the “Skyscape: The limitless art of the sky” exhibition celebrates 500 years of artists’ fascination with the sky.
Now more than ever, it’s important to introduce kids to science as something that helps us understand and respond to everything around us and meteorologist, Guy Brown’s new book “Look Up to See What the Weather Will Be” does just that.
Cloudspotter and videographer, Jim Taulman sent us this and other short videos of Clouds over Cibola National Forest, NM.
Writer and artist, Lorelei O’Connor, sent us this atmospheric poem accompanied by a photo taken by her son, Micheal.
Salil Kawli, member 56,573, sent us this time-lapse video of cirrus clouds over Mumbai, India, that he shot on 24th August 2021.
Isabell VanMerlin wrote this poem a while ago following many gray days in New England. She incorporated it with a photograph taken in Dover, NH, where she lives.
Gary Yost sent us this video. His description he writes “That’s the Gardner Fire Lookout shadow in the halo. I was shooting this from the north catwalk of the Lookout on East Peak, which explains why the center of the Glory is where I was standing”.
‘California Cloudscapes’ is a poem by Jeanie Greensfelder that was originally published in Birdland Journal 2019
Let us introduce you to the ‘summertime halo’…
Artist, Jackie Williams, has been painting with watercolour for some time now and in one of the last courses she attended they also painted clouds. She told us, “it was quite tricky to capture those ever-changing beings but real fun”.
Alrik Swagerman, member 56,484, has spent the last five years photographing the sky in his hometown Scheveningen, The Netherlands, mainly endeavouring to capture its stillness and open space that he experiences on the coast. It has resulted in a collection of 32 photographs entitled ‘Luchtig’.
Cloud enthusiast Gary Yost, sent us this video of the San Francisco Bay Area. His description of it explains that the Bay Area is famous for its dense fog, and when you’re in it the fog is cold and grey. But there’s another side to the fog and the only way to see what happens when it fully comes in and blankets the SF Bay Area at night is to be above it.
Massimiliano Squadroni has sent us this new timelapse taken duringJune / July 2021, from Castelluccio di Norcia, Monti Sibillini National Park, Italy.
“Gold Clouds” oils on canvas, 20 x 30″ is by Daryl D. Johnson, member 45,193. She is based in New Orleans and paints clouds inspired by dramatic colors and forms she has observed.
Sara Blumenstein, supporting member 24,936, recently alerted us to a Fog Art installation at the Louisiana Children’s Museum. The installation was designed by artist, Fujiko Nakaya, a Japanese artist and member of Experiments in Art and Technology who is best known for her fog sculptures
Eli Bajet, member 31,060, isbased in Ontario Canada and takes pictures of the clouds, dressing them with colors to create abstract colorful art.
Barbara Miller, member 56,107, is an aviator in Annapolis, Maryland. She has recently begun a series of paintings based on her up-close and personal experience of clouds
This long horizontal tube of cloud is a rare formation that develops in two very different circumstances. Here comes Cloud of the Month for July, the roll cloud…
Salil Kawli is a photographer based in Mumbai. In 2017 he captured these clouds from above and below on a flight to Paris.
Kathleen Bennett, member 20,977, recently completed this oil painting inspired by a sunrise along the New England coast in Salisbury Beach, MA.
Louise Morgan, member 28,857, painted this scene depicting high cirrus clouds and a light mist on a frosty morning.
Kathleen Janick, member 49,856, sent us this tongue-in-cheek poetic expression of her experience in the CAS cloud watercolor workshops hosted by Donna Levinstone and Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The painting here is one she made during the workshop.
Kate Edge, member 30,633, is in the process of moving the Pembrokeshire, UK, to live in and around the Preseli Hills. She told us this painting was done in her ‘car studio’ and depicts the Iron Age Hill Fort called Foel Drygarn from a high top position in a local farmers field.
Suzanne Fenton, member 43,602, was walking her English Bulldog, Coco, and noticed that different cloud layers were moving at different speeds. It had been very stormy so there had been a lot of varied cloud formations and action lately!
Nate Barton, member 46,647, is a self taught artist, teacher and maker in Asheville, North Carolina. As well as making hats, he also includes handpainted cloudscapes on them.
You can see more of his work on his Instagram
The jellyfish of the sky have arrived! And they bring us a message, as explained in June’s Cloud of the Month…
Ellen Cooper, member 55,491, is an artist living and working in Bellevue, Washington, USA, who paints both landscapes and cloudscapes.
Massimiliano Squadroni of Scenari Digitali srl, sent us this timelapse filmed in May 2021. The video was made through their webcam location in the Castelluccio di Norcia, Monti Sibillini National Park
With the Sun away,
weather came to play – stirring
breeze and sprinkling rain.
Sculptor, Andy Harding created a sculpture installation entitled “Cloud Witness” housed at the Gilda’s Club in Louisville, KY.
George Preoteasa, member 41,445, has recently started to experiment with IR photography and sent us this video.
Wiltrud Dull sent this cloud inspired poem
Malcolm Wilson, member 41,548, painted this scene using oils on canvas of the clouds above Cumbria. It is 3.5 metres long and is to hang in a public room of a Grade 2 Listed Hotel.
When it comes to the relationship between clouds and temperatures on the ground, there is still so much to learn. In a world of changing climates, we still don’t know whether shifts in cloud cover globally will add to or decrease the temperatures below.
Dolores B Mitchell has loved looking at the sky since childhood, when she would imagine walking around in splendid cities in the clouds. This is one of her cloud inspired paintings.
We chase rainbows over Bavaria, Germany and discover there’s more to rainbows than meets the eye…
Daryl D Johnson, member 45,193, sent us her oil on canvas painting “Sunset Wind”.