Snow in the Shade at Jim Day Rapids
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Snow in the Shade at Jim Day Rapids
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The clear skies in the middle of the blocking ridge of high pressure, allowed the temperatures to drop overnight and create a thick hoar frost. The turkeys were on the run to see if there was any corn to be found for their Sunday morning brunch.
There was not much snow left. I headed to Jim Day Rapids with my Guerrilla Painter Plein Air Pochade Box. Some patches of snow lingered on the north side of the marble ridge in the shade of the coniferous trees. The was also a bit of ice on the northern shore of Long Reach. I did not want to go far and I enjoyed the sounds of the rapids. The excited chatter of the migrating Canada geese filled the air. The wing beats of hooded mergansers and the tapping of woodpeckers provided the beat to the music. I tried to immerse myself in the nature of Jim Day Rapids. It was easy to do.
British Surveyors almost certainly camped at this very spot back in 1783. Lieutenant Gershom French, led by Native guides scouted the possibilities for settlement along the Gananoque River. His conclusion was as equally bleak as his fellow officer, Captain Justus Sherwood, both sent by governor Frederick Haldimand of Quebec: "From our entrance in the River Gananoncoui to its fall into the St. Lawrence, I did not discover as much good land Conveniently situated as would serve one Farmer." In some reference that I can't place at the moment, there is a accurate description of camping a point near the rapids of Singleton and then paddling the zigzag path into Red Horse Lake.
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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
Oh, so gorgeous and such wonderful LIGHT. Great sunlit scene with fantastic abstract strokes and colors...love the freedom and spontaneity of the brushwork! Fantastic, Phil Chadwick! L/F/Pinterest
Phil Chadwick replied:
We need the darkness so we can see the light. Thank you Sunny. You really ponder what I am trying to communicate in my art. It is not just shapes and colours. Very kind of you.