Clouds and blue

Posted on September 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cloud busting, cloud layers, Clouds, Dark, fluffy, Kate Bush, Memory, Weather4 Comments

Looking out of the kitchen window this morning I saw blue sky amidst the white puffy clouds. The clouds were breaking up and merging. Reminding me of the song Cloud busting, by Kate Bush

It didn’t last, soon flat layers of cloud spread across the sky, then darker layers built up, piling up as the wind dragged them across the sky. We were on the edge of them, some yellowish light filtered through the upper clouds. So where are the photos? My phone was out of charge and when it was ready for a picture or two? The sun had set.

Wet Wales

Posted on September 23, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Grey, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Sea, trickle, Very short poem, Visit, Water, WetLeave a comment

It rained in Wales:

Water fell on land and sea.

Pebbles rattled in the tide

As the water came to me.

On my head, trickling down.

Back of my neck? Very wet!

Red sky at night

Posted on August 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Camera, Clouds, Colour, Hue, Orange, Photo, Red, saturation, Sky, sky at nightLeave a comment

Now the neighbours hedge has been cut back I can see the sky better. Tonight it was overcast grey but then it glowed orange red. I took a few pictures but they didn’t show the colour I could see so I have adjusted the hue and saturation on the phone to see if I could match them, this is the best I could do.

I didn’t see it.

Posted on August 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aurora, Clouds, coronal Mass ejection, Life, Solar flares, solar maximum, solar minimum, Sun, TonightLeave a comment

Apparently there was another aurora show last night but I must have been asleep. There is another one due tonight in the UK but now it’s raining! This bad photo is from a few weeks ago. I have a tremor and as this was a long (night) exposure over 60 seconds it means I have awful camera shake. Anyway it seems Auroras are increasing because we are close to solar maximum (the sun’s magnetic poles get more and more tangled until suspots explode out as various coronal mass ejections or solar flares, maximum is every 22 years) Then in 11 years later it returns to solar minimum. I’m sorry if this isn’t explained very well.

Cloudy view

Posted on July 31, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Clouds, fields, Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, Landscape, Life, Mountains, TreesLeave a comment

This was what I tried to finish painting today. I wanted to paint a cloudy sky and over painted patches with a sponge to give the clouds a fluffy feel . I even tried to paint some Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds above the mountains. They look like rolling waves on the sea. It’s a tiny portion of the painting and probably not that apparent.

Anyway, acrylic on canvas. (cheap canvas, you can really see the warp and weft.)

Speckly clouds

Posted on July 17, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, England, lovely sky, Photo, Sky, Sparkling, Stoke-on trent, Sunset, ViewLeave a comment

Clouds about 9pm 17.7.24 in Stoke on Trent, England.

Sun was starting to set and the light made the clouds sparkle. I don’t know what type of clouds they are, but I liked the view.

Floating

Posted on July 5, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Building, Clouds, Collage, collage app, corners, four photos, Joined, Sky, symmetricalLeave a comment

Take a photo mainly of sky. Have one or two corners with a building or plant on it. Use a collage tool to create four images and rotate them so that the silhouettes merge in the middle… Voila!

End of the rainbow

Posted on July 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, dark sky, Life, Memory, Rain, Rainbow, Sketching, Sunlight, Time, Water, Weather4 Comments

I just read a post on Facebook about a rainbow and it bought back memories from the 1980s.

I was outside on a sunny day when dark clouds piled up as a shower passed by. I noticed a rainbow forming and unbelievably the end came down just up the street from where I was, about fifty yards away. I walked forward and it moved away. I tried jogging, but it kept the same distance away, then gradually faded as the sunlight was blocked by clouds behind me. I really think this is a real memory, not imagined…

Sunset 19 June 2024

Posted on June 21, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black, Blue, Car park, Clouds, Colours, Grey, intermingled, Life, Orange, Photo, Purple, Sunset, YellowLeave a comment

Looking out over a supermarket car park.

The sky had clouded over, but there was a glow from the setting sun behind the grey clouds. It just shows that a minimal landscape can be enhanced by light and colour. There is blue and grey, orange and yellow, purples and blacks all intermingling and changing by the minute.

For once it wasn’t raining, it wasn’t cold, and it wasn’t windy. You could stand and watch the atmosphere evolve as the sun set. It’s not a very exciting sunset, but I enjoyed it.

Air

Posted on April 26, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Air, Blurry photo, Clouds, Earth, Fine Art, Fire, Spirit, Water, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Blurry photo of my painting Air, part of four images including Earth, Water and Fire. I imagined the spirit of Air, rather like the faces of cherubs with puffed out cheeks blowing storms across ancient mariners maps the yellow and orange at the top is the sun being hidden behind clouds. I like the cheeky and mischievous face that stares out of the painting. It’s probably a little anachronistic, almost Victorian in style, but it’s a semi abstract acrylic on canvas. I just wish I’d taken a better photo. It is for sale.

Mallaband-Brown

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