This is really just another November sunset. Every sunset is pecial though in its own unique fashion. The sunset continues to march southward along the western shore of Singleton as winter soltice approaches. The progression of the seasons between the winter and summer solstices, can be witnessed by the location that the golden orb sinks below the western horizon. The sunsets are always spectacular and are a daily inspiration for fresh painting material.
The streets of turbulent stratocumulus relied on the daytime heating over the still dark ground surfaces. The added bit of instability was the energy that was required to get these cumulus clouds the lift that they needed. These clouds would disappear with the imminent arrival of the darkness. I was intrigued by the rich, yellow colours of the setting sun as contrasted by the dark blues of the backlit stratocumulus. There was no snow virga with these cloud streets that were purely over the land in the more north-northwesterly flow. The interesting science of Langmuir streets and the friction of the planetary boundary level of the atmosphere explained the structure of these beautiful lines of clouds. A co-worker in Environment Canada called these garbage clouds and he could not have been more wrong.
I was using at least two Studio palettes in order to keep my oils clean and bright. I scrape these palettes clean fairly regularly. As they say in the computer world, GIGO which means "garbage in; garbage out. I seldom get oils on my hands while I paint.
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