#2467 "Jim Day Snow Reflections"

I wanted this painting to burst with energy and fun. The surface of the panel was very smooth and slippery with no tooth. Bold and rich strokes with a big brush moving lots of oil was the name of this fun game. I had lots of oil on the palette and tried to use it all. 

This is the view is looking across Jim Day Rapids in late winter. The water is deep and dark and very cold. There is not much soil on these granite ridges. The up to two mile high Laurentide Ice Sheet scraped away the soil between 95,000 and 20,000 years ago. The multiple ice flows during this period created much of the surface geology of southern Canada. The geology makes for some very interesting reading. 

This area is also rich in history. In February 1795 Lewis Grant received a letter from Alexander Aitken, the deputy surveyor of the Midland District, directing him "to lay out a Township on the West side of the River and Lake Gananoque." On May 27th Grant's crew  moved their temporary camp to "where the 9th Cons, line first intersects the Gananoque" (Singleton Lake). They probably camped on the point of land at Jim Day's or Jem Dey's Rapids. 

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