PERSPECTIVE FOR ARTISTS by Rex Vicat Cole

Author:Rex Vicat Cole
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486134543
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

Illus. LVII.

Drawing by the Author.

CLOUDS.

Cirro-stratus.—Dappled cloud patterns of a more fleecy character than the “mare’s tails” present somewhat similar effects. The curved wisps we mentioned may be thought of as imaginary side edgings for numberless detached or semi-detached fleeces lying between them at right angles. The group arrangement holds good, and sometimes becomes more intricately beautiful from the crossing of groups brought into position by cross-currents.

The countryman, always ready to find a telling and often pleasing name for Nature’s subjects, has dubbed some forms of mottled skies with the nicknames “mackerel-back,” “Mother Carey’s chickens,” “ hen-scratted.”

Ruskin aptly likens them to sea-sand ribbed by the tide ; the scientist coldly labels them cirro-stratus.

Whatever you call them, remember they are made up on a system, not haphazard; that curved lines varied by our perspective view underlie their arrangement ; and that in their component parts, and as a whole, they tell which way the wind blows.

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