title : cumulus mammatus
medium : oil pastel on butcher block paper
dimensions : guessing … maybe 15″ squarish …

I am digging up my hand-coloured past having exhausted the supply of recent work. Among other things this virtual location is being built to archive my works if for no other purpose than to document their existence. This piece is long gone and decomposing in a landfill for all I know. I gave it to a friend who liked it very much but I have lost touch with her since then.

A mammatus cloud formation is the kind of thing you might see a long way from here, in dry/mountainous regions.

“Cumulus mammatus … a series of pouch-shaped cloud elements hanging downward from a middle or upper cloud layer … a sky mostly filled with large mammatus clouds indicates a very strong thunderstorm was or is nearby, or may be approaching …”
- National Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Weather

I dream of the big-sky country and taking up with a wild band of weather-chasers. I may yet.