The clouds seem different here (Tiny skies #25)

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The skies are very different where I now live in Fife than they were while growing up in Waterford and Dublin. This year in Scotland we were fortunate to witness Nacreous clouds over several days. Nacreous clouds occur when very small particles of ice, formed high in the Earth’s atmosphere, scatter the light from the sun to produce unreal, ethereal, oily, iridescent, portal-like shapes in the sky at dawn and at dusk. They are hard to describe and surreal to experience. This painting is no.25 in a series of Tiny Skies paintings I am producing, capturing the clouds above me in my new environment.