Basswood Copse
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Basswood Copse
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This is the basswood grove on the edge of our Singleton Property. My chores were not done - far from it! I still had to get four or more cords of wood cut and split for next winter and that was just the tip of my personal iceberg. However the spring like weather was very unusual for February and that iceberg had temporarily melted away. There was still a lot of snow in the fields and I enjoy painting snow. I didn't want to go far so I just stepped out into the field beside the studio.
These huge basswood trees block the early morning sun from the solar panels but otherwise they do a lot of good for the environment. There were some maples off to the side and these still held on to clumps of last season's leaves. The ground was bare and free of snow under the thicket. This exposed the basswood and maple leaves that covered the ground and a multitude of colours along with them.
Enhanced thermal radiation from the dark bark of the basswoods explains the absence of snow under the trees while there was still extensive snow in the fields. Thermal radiation from the trees can really melt the nearby snow as long as it is not too cold - like it had been for the past week. The exposed tree trunks absorb the sun's energy and then re-radiates it as thermal radiation. If the temperatures are near freezing then this extra bit of heating is all it takes to melt the snow under the trees. This extra bit of thermal radiation was not available in the open fields that lack the trees and there the landscape was still blanketed with snow. I thought about these things as I painted. I was loose and fast with the pigments as the rain was on the way and the wind also picked up. Even plus four Celsius on a February afternoon can feel cool if there is no sun to offset the wind.
I like the word "copse" and have used it before in the names of paintings. I intend to use it again.
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March 3rd, 2017
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