Mattawa Morning
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Mattawa Morning
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
Seven modern, white water canoes were following the down-river path of the historical voyageurs in early June 2016. There was lots of water to make the rapids passable. The boulder fields at the low water outlet of the rapids did provide a few obstacles but we made it through. Two hundred years ago there would have been much mre traffic on this water highway. It would have been the only route into the heart of the new land. We were virtually alone.
It had rained hard the previous night but cold air mass stratocumulus and remnants of fog and stratus were a welcome shield from the blazing sun of the previous few days. My goodness, this was a fun trip that was full of irreplaceable memories. I just had to record it in oil only hoping that some of the feelings would make it into the pigments.
Art is more than tone, colour and shapes. You need to get the rhythm and emotion into the brush strokes which is something that the camera has a challenge with.
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July 22nd, 2016
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Comments (2)
Susan Esbensen
There is a chill in the air that I felt when I first looked at this painting, Phil! Your description confirmed my initial impression. The pop of warmth from the canoes draws the eye in and allows it too play among the reflections, then lifted too the sky, it falls back too the water once again. The continuous circuit, moves the eye round and round.
Phil Chadwick replied:
You are on to my tricks Susan :>)) Once you get the viewer's eye in the painting, never let them go...
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