Granite Cliff
by Phil Chadwick
Title
Granite Cliff
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
This interesting piece of granite is from just northeast of Windsor Island in the Parry Sound Archipelago. The rock was photographed at 2 pm on Thursday July 23rd, 2020 looking southwest from very near N45.382488 W80.344342. I had been in front of that rock face the previous September. There would be no way to set up an easel in the depths of this rocky channel - although I would be tempted.
This is another of those rock, lake and trees painting that are characterisitic of Canada. I abbreviate this genre of art as Ro-Lak-Tree because it reminds me of the rock, paper and scissors game called Ro-Sham-Bo. The rocks, lakes and trees is a slight of hand game played using a brush loaded with oil paint. Everybody wins as long as nature is appreciated and protected. Ro-Lak-Tree (a name I made up) is a nature stewardship game that the Group of Seven invented while they were searching for the Canadian identity around the time of the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Sadly, history does repeat itself. People have not really changed in the past hundred years which saw the inventions of the computer, the world-wide-web and space travel....
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November 12th, 2020
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Comments (4)
Beth Sebring
What a fabulous painting! Really awesome.
Phil Chadwick replied:
This was a smooth panel Beth... lay the right colour into place and leave it alone :>)) A different approach for sure and lots of fun! Thank you kindly.
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in ONTARIO CANADA, homepage group, of Fine Art America! :>)))
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in the RED MAPLE GALLERY, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
A Hillman
Terrific, Phil Chadwick! Great reflections, colors, pops of red...what a lovely scene to remember! The water looks WET and the atmosphere is so fresh...STUNNING! Fantastic abstract and patterns! l/f
Phil Chadwick replied:
Thank you Sunny. Your support is much appreciated. Every blank canvas is another opportunity to learn. I feel that artists need to be and paint like themselves although I certainly do admire the art of many contemporary artists!
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