Sunrise Rainbow is a painting by Phil Chadwick which was uploaded on November 18th, 2015.
Sunrise Rainbow
A strong thunderstorm was headed northeastward across Lyndhurst just after dawn in the fall of 2014. Singleton Lake was on the southern flank of the... more
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Title
Sunrise Rainbow
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
A strong thunderstorm was headed northeastward across Lyndhurst just after dawn in the fall of 2014. Singleton Lake was on the southern flank of the storm. A shower of small rain drops probably falling in advance of the forward flank downdraft, were enough to create a morning rainbow. The sunrise light on my back was refracted and reflected internally in the nearly spherical, smaller rain drops, back to my eye. As the old sayings go...
"Rainbow in the morning gives you fair warning". The sun is in the east in the morning, the shower and associated rainbow are in the west. Since weather generally moves from west to east, rain is approaching.
"Beware the bolts from north or west; In south or east the bolts be best." Same reasoning as the above.
"Rainbow to windward, foul fall the day; Rainbow to leeward, rain runs away." If the wind is coming from the direction of the rainbow, the rain is heading toward you. Conversely, if the rainbow is in the opposite direction, it has passed you.
I had planned to paint en plein air on the following Monday morning but although it was sunny, the wind chill was brutal. I painted inside in front of the wood stove. There would be no victory in freezing one's hands yet again.
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November 18th, 2015
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