Weather Art

[Greg McLaughlin]

I have finally scanned some of the artwork I have done over the past 3-4 years. Most of the artwork I have done are drawings of radar/satellite representations of supercells and weather maps. Here are a few of the pieces I have composed.

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii409/uberskillz4ou/supercelldrawing1.jpg
Tornadic Supercell (May 24, 2008)

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii409/uberskillz4ou/meso_occlusion.jpg
Mesocyclone Occlusion (May 23, 2007 - Texas Panhandle)

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii409/uberskillz4ou/tornadodiagram.jpg
Tornado/Mesocyclone

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii409/uberskillz4ou/stormsystem.jpg
Mid-latitude Extratropical Cyclone

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii409/uberskillz4ou/042406_weathermap.jpg
April 24, 2006 Weather Map

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii409/uberskillz4ou/greatderechoradar.jpg
Developing Derecho

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii409/uberskillz4ou/longwavetrough1.jpg
500mb Shortwave Trough

I have other drawings I could post if anyone is interested. I am about to start matting and framing these pieces to sell to interested weather enthusiasts and chasers. I can also compose drawings from any chase if someone is interested.

All of these drawings have been done in colored pencil.

[Stephen Locke]

Beautiful and informative!

[Justin Teague]

If would really like to see posters that commemorate well documented events. Several dates pop into mind, but of particular interest to me are May 12, 2004 and May 24th, 2008. I know that you are capable of much more than what these few images show and I'm positive that other chasers would be interested in your work.

We should start a thread where chasers get to post up to 10 dates/events that they would like for you to commemorate. After a few weeks or so, we could then take the top 5 and create a poll to decide which date/event will go into production. I'm not sure what you would charge, but a group buy "special" might be a great way for you to market the posters/images that chasers vote on. You could require a % of the payment up front and the rest at the end of the group buy.

Here is a pricing structure that seems reasonable (to me):

< 5 buyers: $125 per commemorative poster
5 -10 buyers: $105 per commemorative poster
10 -20 buyers: $90 per commemorative poster
> 20 buyers: $75 per commemorative poster

[Greg McLaughlin]

That sounds like a great idea. I will start another thread that will ask people to list up to ten events they would like to see done and see what kind of response I get.

[Wes Carter]

Greg, it would also be awesome if you could hook up with one of the experienced chasers that has writing abilities (or do it yourself) and write a book about these historical storms and forecasting for chasers.

[Gerrit Gulden]

I agree with Wesley, would be a great opportunity to put together a book as well as posters, framed images.

The drawings are amazing. I would most likely purchase a poster if you designed a 2 or 4 concept of a Suppercell. For example, for your first image you would show 3 other drawings (previous to that) that led up to the Hook echo. Basically "evolution of a supercell". I too would also be interested in seeing "the setup" (front/area/dryline) drawing and then the Supercell drawing and then a image like you did showcasing the tornado. Basically your drawing a story of each storm. I gaurantee that would sell.

Nonetheless, I really enjoyed your drawings. They inspired me to want to draw up some myself.

-gerrit

[Greg Blumberg]

These pictures are amazing. I agree with Gerrit and I'd like to add that it might be nice to have a book on all of this. One of the biggest problems I have with reading papers on severe weather is getting a visual view of the storm structure and the general circulation of a any storm for that matter. I think like your talent with pictures could definitely help me as well as others out there who have difficulty in figuring out what each storm looks like and what the parts mean.

[Jared Farrer]

Their is definit potential there! You could do scetches of famous storm structures and events and brake them down! And like the other two said get comments from leading severe weather scientists. Like Doswell and Bluestein. For instance The greensburg enviroment! You could draw up storm structure then draw up the enviroment.