Here’s the story of the Cloud Appreciation Society told in a minute.
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November 15, 2021
November 12, 2021
Kenneth Farr, member 40,936, told us about the exhibition “Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings” which is running at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, until 27th February 2022.
November 9, 2021
Author and artist Lucretia Bingham, member 53,512, features clouds in most of her paintings and this one was inspired by a camping trip in early Autumn.
November 5, 2021
In Cloud Collection, Diane Borsato, member 41,749 takes us on a cloud-watching journey through the Owens Art Gallery collection.
November 2, 2021
MADISON — Stand on the ocean’s shore and take a big whiff of the salt spray and you’ll smell the unmistakably pungent scent of the sea. That ripe, almost rotting smell? That’s sulfur.
October 26, 2021
In Cloud of the Month for October, we explain the trails of precipitation known as virga and what they reveal about water in our atmosphere…
October 26, 2021
Michael Erb, member 38,503, has written a weather-themed children’s book called “The Weather Detectives”. He told us “the book is for 9-14 year olds, and I hope to inspire young readers to learn more about the weather”.
October 22, 2021
Mick Garton, member 11,554, painted this stormy morning crossing of the (now old) Forth Road Bridge towards Edinburgh in mixed acrylic/watercolour in 2012
October 19, 2021
“Ghostcloud” was written by Michael Mann (member, 56,714). He told us, “it aims to make kids look up, to look with wonder at the sky, to look for shapes/figures/patterns up there. One of the themes is that people are so busy living, they never look up, when there’s a whole world up there waiting to be discovered”
October 15, 2021
Salil P Kawli, member 56,573, shot these clouds during a Monsoon period in Mumbai city, India, and the surrounding areas.
October 12, 2021
Jay Ryan, member 51,238, sent us “North Shore Clouds”, a painting in acrylic inspired by the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.
October 5, 2021
Gary Yost recently sent us this time-lapse study of clouds as seen from the slopes of the Haleakala volcano, Maui (between 3,200′ – 10,000′). Shot during the week of February 14, 2016.
October 1, 2021
Sherry Palmer, member 27,151, has been visiting Skye for over 30 years to paint and see a wealth of clouds every time.
September 28, 2021
Mamma cloud features appear as lobes hanging from the underside of a cloud layer. Find out more in Cloud of the Month…
September 28, 2021
Linda Bailey, member 54,891, recently came across this article on the Science News website about the effect of wildfire smoke on cumulus clouds.
September 24, 2021
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.
September 21, 2021
Sherwin Berger, member 18,239, sent us his cloud inspired piece, “Cloud Warriors of the Sky”
September 17, 2021
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.
September 15, 2021
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.
September 14, 2021
Cloudspotter and videographer, Jim Taulman sent us this and other short videos of Clouds over Cibola National Forest, NM.
September 10, 2021
Writer and artist, Lorelei O’Connor, sent us this atmospheric poem accompanied by a photo taken by her son, Micheal.
September 7, 2021
Salil Kawli, member 56,573, sent us this time-lapse video of cirrus clouds over Mumbai, India, that he shot on 24th August 2021.
September 3, 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.
August 31, 2021
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”.
August 27, 2021
‘California Cloudscapes’ is a poem by Jeanie Greensfelder that was originally published in Birdland Journal 2019
August 26, 2021
Let us introduce you to the ‘summertime halo’…
August 24, 2021
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”.
August 20, 2021
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’.
August 17, 2021
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.
August 13, 2021
Massimiliano Squadroni has sent us this new timelapse taken duringJune / July 2021, from Castelluccio di Norcia, Monti Sibillini National Park, Italy.
August 10, 2021
“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.
August 6, 2021
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
July 30, 2021
Eli Bajet, member 31,060, isbased in Ontario Canada and takes pictures of the clouds, dressing them with colors to create abstract colorful art.
July 27, 2021
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
July 20, 2021
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…
July 20, 2021
Salil Kawli is a photographer based in Mumbai. In 2017 he captured these clouds from above and below on a flight to Paris.
July 16, 2021
Kathleen Bennett, member 20,977, recently completed this oil painting inspired by a sunrise along the New England coast in Salisbury Beach, MA.
July 13, 2021
Louise Morgan, member 28,857, painted this scene depicting high cirrus clouds and a light mist on a frosty morning.
July 9, 2021
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.
July 6, 2021
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.
