Early Morning Rain
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Early Morning Rain
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The band of heavy rain and thunderstorms had moved through Singleton Lake at dawn. The dry slot of the system was due to approach and the showers did end as I drove down to the 2015 Worldwide Paintout in Kingston. I checked in at the office and was ready to paint on the shores of lake Ontario shortly after 9 am. It brought back memories to 1972 when I was on these same pathways as a first year student at Queen's. A lot of Queens students jogged by and a few stopped to watch what I was doing but mainly they were quite indifferent to myself and even the weather. Blustery southwesterly winds were stirring up the 52.5 mm of rain that had fallen with the low pressure area. Turbulent stratocumulus dominated the dry slot but the higher banks of nimbo and altostratus were clearly visible on the western horizon. It would only be a few hours before the "hang-back" would sweep across Kingston with another band of rain and winds.
Snake Island was barely discernible in the middle of the skyscape. Snake Island used to have a few tall elm trees before the cormorants arrived. Sailers remark that "the shore line around Snake Island is covered with water foul. It is also foul smelling down wind." I watched a cloud of birds take off from the island and I was surprised to see that they were all cormorants when they flew along the shoreline.
The tip of Simcoe Island is on the left side of the painting. Amherst Island is to the right of Snake Island while the Kingston shoreline is on the right fringe.
The title is after the Gordon Lightfoot song. We saw Gordon at Queens in the fall of 1972 - great concert! It is also apt because the rain did indeed fall in the early morning and I had a few hours to paint before the next rain would arrive with the hang-back.
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September 27th, 2015
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