#1330 "Mouth of the Saugeen"

#1330 "Mouth of the Saugeen"
8x10 oils on canvas 
Started 11:30 am Tuesday August 20th, 2013.
Painting place on Scubby`s Bluff overlooking the mouth
of the Saugeen River at N44.50137 W81.37251.

I was spending a week at the Southampton Art School in the summer of 1913. Two different classes ran back to back. It was fun! 

This was another 37-minute or 37-stroke experiment intermixed with assisting my fellow participants in "Making Waves in Oil". There is no good reason to limit the exercise to 37 minutes except that 37 is a prime number. I think I went over on my number of brush strokes but no one was counting - especially me. 

This view is looking across the harbour mouth of the Saugeen River from Scubby`s Bluff at Southampton toward Chantry Island and the famous life-saving light. The composition was a group consensus and we all had a go at it before the sun started to glare into one's eyes. The sun was very strong in the cloudless skies. 

I wanted to capture the feeling of the place without painting every stone or blade of grass.  There is nothing like painting outside!

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Warmest regards and keep your paddle in the water,

Phil Chadwick