True Colours
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
True Colours
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
I headed out to Buck Lake on the Limberlost Forest and Wildlife Reserve. I was a bit surprised at the number of hikers of all shapes and sizes. There were even a few bike riders and one took a nasty fall and he sent the upside down image to his wife back in Toronto from his smart phone. I just have a dumb phone and it was back at Singleton Lake.
The composition was suggested my friend - so that is what I painted. My friend wrote: "Remember I called it "Symmetry". Like the way the yellow pops out and enhances the red. The colour has just continued to get better. I am actually finding it overwhelming. There are whole hills that seem to be on fire."
The greens of the summer chlorophyll fade away, the true colours on the leaves shine through. There can also be some chemical changes within the leaves that actually produce red anthocyanin pigments. These changes are brought about by the seasonal decrease in light and not by temperature.
The chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow to orange colors become visible and give the leaves part of their fall splendor. At the same time other chemical changes may occur, which form additional colors through the development of red anthocyanin pigments. Any brown in the leaf is likely the results of waste produced through the summer of the chlorophyll factories producing sustenance for the tree.
So I named this painting after the colours hidden by the green chlorophyll factories. These colours are really characteristic to each type of tree. It is also a play on the common phrase that when someone shows their true colours, they reveal the kind of person they really are.
Another story behind this title is a bit more sinister. Every ship is obliged to fly it flag or ensign while at sea. It was once a common deception of pirates to 'sail under false colours' and fly a friendly flag in order to get within close range of potential targets without exciting suspicion. Only when the pirate ship reached close quarters would it unfurl its 'true colours'. Trees are not that evil...
Many lakes in northern Ontario have been harmed by sulphur dioxide emissions originating from coal fired power plants and other industries operating hundreds of kilometres to the west. Scientists claim that this has already had a major impact on fish populations and other aquatic life in the eastern Canadian lakes.
An environmental experiment conducted on Buck Lake involved repairing a weir with crushed limestone at the southeast corner of the lake. Water flows throughout the year over this weir through Poverty Lake and three other lakes before reaching Long Lake.
The limestone has a positive environmental impact by helping to neutralize the acidity of the waters in the downstream lakes. The weir construction was initiated in the late 1980s as a school group conservation project. The project was successful.
Over a five year period, meaningful results have been achieved. The survival rate of stocked fingerlings increased and the size and health of the fish caught is much improved. These results are despite an active family of otters, and the kingfishers and other birds of prey which have returned to the area, including a recent sighting of a bald eagle on Limberlost Road.
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November 7th, 2016
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