Canoe Lake Whites is a painting by Phil Chadwick which was uploaded on January 27th, 2017.
Canoe Lake Whites
This is number twenty-three in the Canoe Lake Paddle as numbered along the path of the paddle. The white pines always stretch proudly above the... more
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Title
Canoe Lake Whites
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
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This is number twenty-three in the Canoe Lake Paddle as numbered along the path of the paddle. The white pines always stretch proudly above the forest canopy. The lumber of the white pine helped to draw the Gilmour lumber company among others to the area that would become Algonquin Park. I always like to try different techniques to capture the light of the sky emerging through the branches of these white pines. It is a trick to keep your colours clean and have just the right about of tinted panel peeking through. The title has nothing to do with the whiter shades of grey in the sky and everything to do with the trees.
The overcast stratus gave a gentle and diffuse light to the forest and autumn colours. As a result there was no dazzling sunlight to over-power the emerging colours of the maples and birches that lined the shore. Surprisingly, the reflections in the dark waters of Canoe Lake were just as brilliant as the original colours direct from the trees themselves. This is in contrast to what I saw in #1852 "Blecher's Place". This might be the result of being much further from the shore so that the stronger process of reflection at a glancing angle was more effective than any of the darker "reflections" coming from the tea stained colours. Reflection at glancing angles explains sun glint. There is still so much to learn...
The feel of the painting is a strong function of the smooth but textured surface, the bold strokes and the aging oils. I was still working with the original palette of paint from several weeks before. I was just adding new pigments as I needed them. Waste not, want not...
I used a lot of paint on this small and very slippery surface. I simply laid the oils in and tried to leave them alone - continued stroking of the paint would turn the oils into mud. I scratched my signature into the wet paint with a tooth-pick.
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