Pennisseault Lake Morning
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Pennisseault Lake Morning
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
I was on my way back from Canadian Tire in Deep River were I picked up a replacement air mattress. I was hoping that the new one would not deflate in a couple of hours. Always positive...
I stopped at steep boat ramp into Pennisseault Lake. It was a quiet location a hundred feet off the busy Dumoine Road. The southerly view also provided a clear look at the weather. I had a pair of loons do a flyby as I painted. I did not see any juvenile loons during the entire week I spent on the Dumoine. A large water snake also passed by at my feet. Otherwise I was alone.
The brisk easterly wind at cloud level shredded the cumulus as they raced on the way into the approaching low pressure area. I could hear the wind descending into the tops of the pines as I was finishing up the painting. The whisper of the wind in the forest was almost musical. Water skaters were liberally sprinkled across the surface of the still calm lake. The dimples of their bodies darting around on the surface tension made it look like it was already raining. It was not.
There was a deck of altocumulus above the turbulent cumulus fractus. Altocumulus typically form in the gentle updraft preceding a storm. The deformation zone in the weather pattern was already far to the northeast. Thunderstorms were very likely to begin in just a few hours. Trees were blown down across the Dumoine Road again that afternoon in several places. Tornadoes were also reported in the Ottawa Valley.
"Pennisseault" is French for "peninsula" - a piece of land that is almost entirely surrounded by water. I guess it also can describe the water in this case.
Dumoine Road crosses the causeway over the Pinceau River creating two large bodies of water. Above the causeway and below it. The story goes that a local trucker had bought a brand new 600 horsepower truck that he would use to haul logs. As the driver approached the bridge, he had second thoughts that the wood-framed structure could take the load. He drove on. About half-way across the bridge there was a tremendous crash. The trucker thought that the best option was to proceed quickly across the bridge rather than to risk crashing into the water. He made it safely across the bridge but the truck was wearing the roof of the old bridge like a hat.The present day causeway replaced the historic covered bridge crossing. Not as elegant as the old covered bridge, but better suited to the larger and heavier logging loads on the road.
The lakes along the Dumoine road are "wide spots" in the Pinceau River which empties into the Ottawa River below the Zec concrete bridge.
CPAWS-Ottawa Valley has hosted DRAW Retreat for Artists since 2017. DRAW is a clever acronym for Dumoine River Art for Wilderness. I have attended every year except during COVID. There is no better cause. The goals are admirable and ones that I deeply share. The goal is ultimately to make a lasting difference like A.Y Jackson and the Ontario Society of Artists did in the case of Killarney Provincial Park. The impacts of climate change are already being felt. There is no time for dithering.
This is the ninth of twenty-eight paintings I completed en plein air at CPAWS DRAW 2023. It was a wonderful experience with a terrific group of people. https://cpaws-ov-vo.org/draw-retreat-artists/ A portion of sales from this endeavour will go to support CPWAS and keep the wild in the wilderness.
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September 4th, 2023
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Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, Phil, on FEATURED ART OF THE WEEK, in ‘Ontario Canada’, 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!