Rain-full cloud

This cloud portrait is a cloud full of rain, a cumulonimbus cloud. The likeness was taken at about 4:30 pm facing north against a dense sky full of clouds, some very white. The change in the weather arrived overnight on Wednesday, September 21st and the result is rainy, damp and humid.


The dark and bright white cumulonimbus clouds were so stark but beautiful. It was difficult to select which lovely cloud to paint but I liked this one having a whiter cloud behind and below it. They look very soft, don't they?

Rain, finally!

Lovely, lovely rain-swollen cumulus clouds over all of central Virginia--hooray! We had rain last night and sporadically thoughout the day today with more forecast for tonight and tomorrow. Here is a view of the sky at about 12:15 pm facing south with light winds from the west and scattered showers which landed on me and this little watercolor.

There is no blue sky peeking through these beauties. They are low and heavy clouds moving along and dropping rain as they will. This was painted at Armour House to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw" (great fiddle version) from an ice cream truck in a nearby neighborhood.