Dumoine Granite Ledge
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Dumoine Granite Ledge
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
After completing #1959 "Morning on the Grande Chute" I simply turned my view across Grande Chute. A large granite ledge caught my eye. The roar of the water and the rapid filled the air and my goal was to get this sound into the paint as well. The sound made one feel as though you were alone and isolated save for the bites and buzzing of the black flies and mosquitoes. I wore my complete bug suit all of the time and even put on my Michael Jackson glove to protect my palette hand from the bugs that hovered around looking for any gap in my armour.
When canoeing white water one needs to be able to read the current speed. The slow bands of water are desirable but you need to determine if they are caused by submerged rocks that should be avoided. Fast bands can be fun but be certain that they do not flow toward unavoidable and disastrous obstacles like the ledge above or hydraulics. Whitewater reading is the same as learning any language. The more you read, the better you can decipher the meaning of the water. Fluency comes once you can glance at a set of rapids and know precisely where to place your canoe. Understanding the basic vocabulary of texture and colour will help you to scout a safe route down the rapid, or more importantly, recognize when it would be safer to portage around it. The same can be said about plein air painting.
These Canadian Shield ledges were much better portaged and painted rather than canoed.
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September 4th, 2017
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