#2866 "Foggy July Dumoine Sunrise at the Trippers Camp "

#2866 "Foggy July Dumoine Sunrise at the Trippers Camp "
8x10 oils on stretched canvas
Started 6:30 am Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
from very near N46.466339 W77.766261.

I was out in my canoe and paddling before 6 am on Tuesday, July 30th. Some canoe trippers were camping at the lone campsite on the flatwater between the two sets of rapids south of the DuMoine Rod and Gun Club. They were still in bed when I quietly sketched their canoes. I was standing at the water's edge at the base of the steep incline where I had launched Margaritaville (my Kevlar canoe) the previous afternoon. 

The Dumoine was in the warm sector of the weather pattern. The fog had noticeably thickened as I paddled from John's Cabin. The first rays of warmth from the rising sun stir the moist mixture that accumulates near the ground during the gradually lengthening summer nights. The water vapour rapidly condenses on the particulates creating a pea-soup fog in minutes. The light breezes drift these fog banks around causing the visibility and painting conditions to change unpredictably and rapidly. Sometimes the tents were totally obscured. I locked in the colours at a moment when the visibility was better. The trippers were still asleep by the time I finished. 

I had watched them fly fishing the previous evening. I wished that I had kept up that skill. Fly fishing is fun!  They had caught something with a regular spinning rod in the outflow from the upstream rapids the previous evening. They whooped and hollered with joy and possibly surprise. I expect they enjoyed a tasty meal of some kind of fish around the campfire featured in #2895 "Dumoine Campsite Deluxe Firepit".

Four immature golden-eye ducks paddled by to inspect me. I would see them frequently the rest of the week and once they swam with me in the deep water in front of John's Cabin.

This is the third of  thirty-five paintings I completed en plein air at CPAWS DRAW 2024. It was a wonderful experience with a terrific group of people. https://cpaws-ov-vo.org/draw-retreat-artists/ A portion of sales from this endeavour will go to support CPAW and keep the 'wild' in the wilderness.  

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Warmest regards and keep your paddle in the water,

Phil Chadwick