Lost Homestead
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Lost Homestead
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The name is a bit of a play on the title "Lost Horizon" which would kind of fit as well. Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. "Lost Horizon" was set in 1935. Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway had one last task in China: to rescue 90 white Westerners in the city of Baskul. He flies out with the last few evacuees, just ahead of armed Chinese revolutionaries. The story is convoluted but the bottom line is that the star returns to live and love in the lost paradise of Shangri-La, an idyllic valley deep in the Himalayan Mountains where people live for hundreds of years.
This deserted homestead is on the west side of the King-Caledon Town Line right at the crest of the Oak Ridges Moraine. It is just north of the 19th Sideroad of King Township. I have been watching this scene for some time and wanted to paint it in the morning low angle light with an approaching storm. The line of showers and thunderstorms comprising the horizon was crossing Windsor at 8 am which was perfect timing for me to paint and get the darkest part of the sky done last ... just in time to bail before getting drowned.
This would have been a very special place to live during the pioneering era of the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Everything went well except that I forgot my paint box at the farm. I made do with the colours on my palette, which forced me to do some innovative colour mixing. I had the farmhouse nailed and then went on to overwork it. I recovered it but it was better, in my opinion as I remember it, the first time I laid in the colours.
I bet that Linda and I could fix this place up - just like we did for Watershed Farm on the 12th of King.
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July 22nd, 2017
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