#2326 "Cirrus Lines"

Every sky is another challenge. I keep trying different techniques to realistically interpret the complexities of the many layers and depths of the atmosphere - with a minimal number of strokes of the brush. Too many brush strokes can steal the life out of the painting. Polishing the brush strokes makes everything flat. I want the oils and the scene to be alive and vigourous with the three dimensionality of the real world.

In the Singleton Studio with the tunes and the wood stove.

This is a meteorologically very interesting overcast sky filled with cirrus. There are cirrus Langmuir streets parallel to the winds bringing the heat and moisture to the Parry Sound Archipelago. There are cirrus gravity waves in the stable layers of the warm conveyor belt that are everywhere perpendicular to those winds just like waves on a lake. There are multiple deformation zones but the most obvious one and the only one I fully included is the one just above the horizon. This particular deformation zone certainly leads the next and deeper layer of warm conveyor belt moisture. Deformation zones are the leading edge of the moisture at a particular layer and result from the stretching of the air laterally. Deformation is a beautiful process and is the key to unlocking a lot of the dynamic features that drive the weather. There is also cirrocumulus instability producing mare's tails shafts of ice crystal virga. Cirrostratus is the backdrop of this meteorological tale that mutes the deep blues that would have been observed in an unclouded sky.

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