Some of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) artists returned returned back to the eastern end of the bridge that crossed Grande Chute. Vic, Angela and Lynne were my painting partners.
This is the view looking northeast along the edge of the east channel leading into Grande Chute. A large white cedar gripped the granite of this bank and was hanging on for dear life. The many branches of the white cedar sagged toward the current. The current of the Dumoine would eventually undercut that bank and pitch this white cedar into the chute - but for now the tree was clinging to dry land. So this is the late morning, dark east bank of Grande Chute...
Saturday was the 140th Anniversary of Tom Thomson's birth in 1877 in Claremont, Pickering Township about 50 km east of Toronto on Lake Ontario. Tom was the sixth of ten children. Tom was only two months old when the family moved to a farm in Leith, eleven km northeast of Owen Sound. Tom died much too early just shy of his 40th birthday on July 8, 1917. I hope that Tom would have been pleased with my plein air efforts on this special day.
I scratched my name in the wet paint immediately after finishing this plein air painting. If I am in the artistic zone I sometime forget this step. The signature is very subtle but is there in the paint forever when the oils dry. I don't like my signature to get in the way of the art.
CPAWS, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is dedicated to protect the biodiversity of the Ottawa Valley and surrounding areas through legislation and public education. One goal is to connect the Adirondack to Algonquin nature corridor to the wilderness of Quebec. The Dumoine watershed is critical to achieve this mission. Climate change is making such a north-south corridor vital. Wildlife is indeed reacting to global warming and I spoke with a family of Dumoine trappers who caught a very furry possum in 2017 for the first time ever. Possums are marsupials more accustomed to being located much further to the south in Virginia. Apparently possums are able to adapt to colder conditions as well. We spoke of these and other things over the campfire of the first Dumoine River Art Camp sponsored by CPAWS-OV.
This is the view looking northeast along the edge of the east channel leading into Grande Chute. A large white cedar gripped the granite of this bank and was hanging on for dear life. The many branches of the white cedar sagged toward the current. The current of the Dumoine would eventually undercut that bank and pitch this white cedar into the chute - but for now the tree was clinging to dry land. So this is the late morning, dark east bank of Grande Chute...
Saturday was the 140th Anniversary of Tom Thomson's birth in 1877 in Claremont, Pickering Township about 50 km east of Toronto on Lake Ontario. Tom was the sixth of ten children. Tom was only two months old when the family moved to a farm in Leith, eleven km northeast of Owen Sound. Tom died much too early just shy of his 40th birthday on July 8, 1917. I hope that Tom would have been pleased with my plein air efforts on this special day.
I scratched my name in the wet paint immediately after finishing this plein air painting. If I am in the artistic zone I sometime forget this step. The signature is very subtle but is there in the paint forever when the oils dry. I don't like my signature to get in the way of the art.
CPAWS, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is dedicated to protect the biodiversity of the Ottawa Valley and surrounding areas through legislation and public education. One goal is to connect the Adirondack to Algonquin nature corridor to the wilderness of Quebec. The Dumoine watershed is critical to achieve this mission. Climate change is making such a north-south corridor vital. Wildlife is indeed reacting to global warming and I spoke with a family of Dumoine trappers who caught a very furry possum in 2017 for the first time ever. Possums are marsupials more accustomed to being located much further to the south in Virginia. Apparently possums are able to adapt to colder conditions as well. We spoke of these and other things over the campfire of the first Dumoine River Art Camp sponsored by CPAWS-OV.
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