Dumoine Thunderstorm
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Dumoine Thunderstorm
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This was the second day of the first CPAWS Dumoine River Art Camp. An upper low pressure area over James Bay was spinning spokes of instability across the Dumoine watershed daily. The spokes on this weather wheel seemed to be spaced by 36 hours or so. A particularly unstable spoke of showers and thunderstorms crossed the Grande Chute on Friday afternoon. This was very important painting time and I did not wish to let any of it get away. Angela painted with me between the thunderstorms and I insisted that "we would be alright". The largest hail stones we saw were border-line severe with the diameter of a nickel. Angela had to repeatedly pack and unpack her gear. The weather provided an interesting back drop to the First CPAWS Art Camp.
The canvas got really soaked but I had coated the canvas with a bit of linseed oil so all was well. I did grind the pigment into the weave of the canvas. This painting was looking upstream across the portage to the hills the north of Grande Chute. The threat of lightning and painting next to a metal easel were very real concerns. We would not take any chances as lightning is lethal. The ominous and threatening weather explains why I forgot to scratch my signature into the oil paint after completing this painting en plein air.
The Algonquins named the Dumoine River "Cakawitopikak Sipi" and "Ekonakwasi Sipi" which apparently means Alder River. I painted these alders in many of these paintings. The alder is a tree of the birch family and the genus Alnus. The 30 known species are found mainly in the northern hemisphere. There are three alders native to Canada. Alders have shallow roots, horizontal bark markings (lenticels) and elongated spring catkins. They thrive in the moist soils along the Dumoine. Shaman (medicine men), artisans and warriors used alders for countless purposes. Who knew? The bark has been used as a throat medicine, the wood for cabinets and for bridge foundations because of endurance under water, and the charcoal as a constituent of gunpowder.
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