#2409 "Granite Cliff"

This interesting piece of granite is from just northeast of Windsor Island in the Parry Sound Archipelago. The rock was photographed at 2 pm on Thursday July 23rd, 2020 looking southwest from very near N45.382488 W80.344342. I had been in front of that rock face the previous September. There would be no way to set up an easel in the depths of this rocky channel - although I would be tempted. 

This is another of those rock, lake and trees painting that are characterisitic of Canada. I abbreviate this genre of art as Ro-Lak-Tree because it reminds me of the rock, paper and scissors game called Ro-Sham-Bo. The rocks, lakes and trees is a slight of hand game played using a brush loaded with oil paint. Everybody wins as long as nature is appreciated and protected. Ro-Lak-Tree (a name I made up) is a nature stewardship game that the Group of Seven invented while they were searching for the Canadian identity around the time of the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Sadly, history does repeat itself. People have not really changed in the past hundred years which saw the inventions of the computer, the world-wide-web and space travel.... 

Oils on burnt sienna acrylic foundation on a smooth panel with two or three coats of white primer, a thick coat of Golden Artists Colors-GAC-100 followed by one or two coats of gesso. The number, title and story are typically written on the back in pencil and then sealed with a coat of Kamar artist varnish - 8 X 10 (inches) by ¼ inch thick.

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