On the Brink of Grande Chute is a painting by Phil Chadwick which was uploaded on September 14th, 2017.
On the Brink of Grande Chute
Some of the CPAWS artists returned returned back to the eastern end of the bridge that crossed Grande Chute. I had the paint-mobile so was able to... more
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Title
On the Brink of Grande Chute
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Some of the CPAWS artists returned returned back to the eastern end of the bridge that crossed Grande Chute. I had the paint-mobile so was able to transport more than just myself.
Unable to pick between the extremes, I decided to head to the very middle of the bridge and paint the inflow of the west channel into Grand Chute. The many colours in the water were created by the varying amounts of air stirred into the turbulent fluid. The natural tea-stain from the vegetation along the Dumoine also entered the colourful mix. The corpse of a large tree was stuck on the very brink of Grande Chute. That tree could be there for years. The tree originated from a copse somewhere upstream...
Saturday was the 140th Anniversary of Tom Thomson's birth in 1877 in Claremont, Pickering Township about 50 km east of Toronto on Lake Ontario. Tom was the sixth of ten children. Tom was only two months old when the family moved to a farm in Leith, eleven km northeast of Owen Sound. Tom died much too early just shy of his 40th birthday on July 8, 1917. I hope that Tom would have been pleased with my plein air efforts on this special day.
I scratch my name in the wet paint immediately after finishing each plein air painting. If I am in the artistic zone I sometime forget this step. The signature is very subtle but is there in the paint forever when the oils dry.
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September 14th, 2017
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Comments (6)
A Hillman
Revisiting and liking again! Hope you do a zillion more really energetic abstracts! L
Phil Chadwick replied:
This brings back great memories Sunny. I remember that cedar tree lodged on the brink of the Grand Chute in 2017. It was gone in 2018. Thank you
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