Still Standing
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Still Standing
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
This is number eleven in the Canoe Lake Paddle as numbered along the path of the paddle.
I paddled northward for just another 3 minutes from #1845 "Canoe Lake Colours" and came upon this very dead spruce on the shoreline. A dead spruce has a unique bluish, grey colour with many variations depending on the light. The reflection of this grey monument dappled across the slight ripples in the surface of Canoe Lake. The birches and soft maples were still numerous and provided a back drop for the spruce.
There was a fresh painting with every stroke of the paddle. The overcast stratus gave a gentle and diffuse light to the forest. As a result there was no dazzling sunlight to over-power the emerging colours of the maples and birches that lined the shore. The reflections in the dark waters of Canoe Lake were just as brilliant as the original colours direct from the trees themselves.
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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January 14th, 2017
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