Long Bay
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Long Bay
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
This is number twenty-eight in the Canoe Lake Paddle as numbered along the path of the paddle. I paddle a bit deeper into Whiskey Jack Bay and was looking toward the south. I was playing with the reflections and trying different techniques to capture the light of the sky emerging through the forest. There were splashes of birch yellow along the shoreline. The bay was very shallow but the bottom was certainly metres below the thick layer of mud and ooze which formed the apparent bottom. The flock of mallards had departed for deeper into the bay.
I like the name of this bay. I presume that it was named after the Canadian Geographic's official recommendation for National Bird of Canada: the gray (grey is actually the Canadian spelling of the colour) jay. Another name for the gray jay is whiskey jack (from the Cree name "Wisakedjak"). The gray jay is also called the Canada jay. It is the perfect Canadian bird found across the nation in the Boreal forest and better yet, it is not a snow bird. The gray jay stays home in Canada all year long regardless of the weather. What a perfect candidate for the Canadian National Bird – the Canadian Jay!
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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February 1st, 2017
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