Buzzard Arctic Sea Smoke Wood Print

wood prints buzzard wood prints impressionism wood prints landscape wood prints arctic wood prints sea wood prints smoke wood prints mist wood prints fog wood prints thermals wood prints dawn wood prints sun wood prints kawartha wood prints provincial wood prints park wood prints lake wood prints

paintings buzzard paintings impressionism paintings landscape paintings arctic paintings sea paintings smoke paintings mist paintings fog paintings thermals paintings dawn paintings sun paintings kawartha paintings provincial paintings park paintings lake paintings

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

The Wilson Street Studio Kawarthas' Excursion 2014 Paint-out. I was up at dawn again on Sunday morning. The air mass was a lot chiller overnight and there was quite a lot of Arctic sea smoke rising off the warm water of Buzzard Lake. Those spirals of rising air were taking heat with them. Rotation is induced by the inward flow and deflection of air that replaces those rising thermals. They are fascinating to watch and paint. The morning swim was a bit chillier.
A medium sized snapping turtle was curious and hung around all morning.
This is a small and slippery surface with almost no tooth to grab the oils.

I paint outside - nothing between my eyes and the inspiration. That special connectivity gets into the pigments and you quickly realize that we are all stewards of the land, privileged to appreciate its beauty during our lifetime but responsible for leaving the environment better off for the future and all inhabitants... Phil was born and raised along the St. Lawrence of Ontario, Canada and studied at Queens University as a nuclear physicist. A meteorologist for Environment Canada for 35 years, Phil specializes in severe weather and training. Remote sensing is his forte - you might want to see a tornado before you die... but not just before you die! He has farmed, raised bees, written books and articles, lectured and instructed...