Fluids
by Phil Chadwick
Title
Fluids
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The current at the bottom of Jim Day Rapids shapes the pollen and duck weed floating on the surface. There are deformation zones and chains of vorticity maxima and minima. These patterns on the top of the water can be used to read the water currents in the same way that the cloud patterns in the atmosphere can be used to read the atmospheric "rivers". There are also fluid like patterns in the shapes and colours in the forest. It would appear that everything has a fluid aspect to it. The human body is even composed of about 57% fluids - I had to look that up.
The wind was funneling up Long Reach and caused ripples in the surface of the water. These ripples reflected the sky colour while the surrounding calm water surfaces reflected the colours of the forest. One has to always have the "mirror model" in you mind when you are trying to make sense of reflected light.
The water levels were down about 12 inches and that explains the lines etched on the granite shore line - another characteristic of fluids.
I used a lot of paint and wanted to have some fun...
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November 26th, 2015
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Susan Esbensen
A wonderful autumn palette that flows fluidly across the canvas Phil!
Phil Chadwick replied:
Yes Susan... I had brightened up my palette and allowed the colours to flow... I keep trying :>))
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