Lily Pads Pondering
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Lily Pads Pondering
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
I often pause while I am out paddling just to float along and study the lily pads and what other nature might be around. The lily pads are rich in colour, texture and form. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) also chose to surround himself with nature. He wrote: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." True words that I attempt to live by as well.
Thoreau needed to concentrate more on his writing. Apparently, Ellery Channing told Thoreau in March 1845: "Go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no other alternative, no other hope for you." Just months later on July 4, 1845, Thoreau started his two-year, simple living experiment in a small house he had built on land owned by Emerson in a second-growth forest along the shores of Walden Pond. The house was in "a pretty pasture and woodlot" of 14 acres. Paradise does not need to be large.
I built a garden shed in the summer of 2022 with some help from the Grand Kids. I had considered building a "Tom Thomson Shack" as well but that might not happen and time waits for no one. I have gotten used to "glamping" in the Singleton Sanctuary Studio surrounded by my tools and art. Life is very good.
I thought that I could string out a series of these pads I witnessed in the eastern bay of Singleton Lake. I used lots of oil on this unusual, gallery-mount canvas. The Singleton Sanctuary Studio was quite jammed pack with curing canvases.
It was still very much winter outside so I enjoyed my time in Singleton Sanctuary Studio in front of the Pacific Energy wood stove.
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February 28th, 2023
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Comments (3)
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in the RED MAPLE GALLERY, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in ONTARIO CANADA, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
A Hillman
Magnificent, Phil Chadwick! Amazing color, composition, atmosphere, and FLOW! A new FAVORITE!
Phil Chadwick replied:
You are very kind Sunny. There is indeed a lot of motion in this painting and it just flowed - so much fun. Thank you my friend.
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