Dumoine Cumulonimbus is a painting by Phil Chadwick which was uploaded on September 12th, 2017.
Dumoine Cumulonimbus
The First CPAWS Art Camp was certainly having some weather challenges. A couple of tents were flooded out. I kind of enjoyed the clouds and the... more
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Title
Dumoine Cumulonimbus
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The First CPAWS Art Camp was certainly having some weather challenges. A couple of tents were flooded out. I kind of enjoyed the clouds and the weather did provide some interesting subject matter.
The next thunderstorm tracked just to the north of the Grande Chute so I decided to paint it. The threat of lightning was not zero but I had come to paint. The metal easel was a concern as it provided a really efficient lightning rod. I had coated the canvas with a light spray of linseed oil. The canvas got really soaked but the linseed oil allowed me to persevere so that all was well. The klag or forest fog was swirling upward from the forest canopy. At one point there looked to be a lowering wall cloud under the updraft of this thunderstorm. The rain moistened air was being lifted again and formed cloud beneath the lifted condensation level of the thunderstorm and this particular air mass. I did not see any rotation in this cloud.
I forgot to scratch my signature into the oil paint after completing this painting en plein air. I must have been very embroiled in the moment.
The Algonquins named the Dumoine River "Cakawitopikak Sipi" and "Ekonakwasi Sipi" which apparently means Alder River. I painted these alders in many of these paintings. The alder is a tree of the birch family and the genus Alnus. The 30 known species are found mainly in the northern hemisphere. There are three alders native to Canada. Alders have shallow roots, horizontal bark markings (lenticels) and elongated spring catkins. They thrive in the moist soils along the Dumoine. Shaman (medicine men), artisans and warriors used alders. The bark has been used as a throat medicine, the wood for cabinets and for bridge foundations because of endurance under water, and the charcoal as a constituent of gunpowder.
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September 12th, 2017