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The Mushroom
Oil on Canvas Panel
8 x10 inches
2007
Killarney, Ontario
This was the first time I had been back in Ontario in
the fall in twelve years. I had travelled alone to spent some time with
my Mom who had rented a cottage in Killarney. Killarney is a wonderland
at the north end of Georgian Bay. The landscape is mountains of exposed
quartzite that makes the hills always look like they are covered in
snow. The lakes are emerald green and turquoise blue.
My friend Tony Bianco had come up to spend two days painting with me.
Will all the scenery around, you would think that finding something to
paint would be easy. This is not always the case.
We headed up a trail that promised to have the chance of opening up to
a grand view of the mountains and so off we went. After a mile lugging
painting gear, we were still in the woods. We decided the trail would
do.
As happens so many times when I paint with Tony, he painted looking up
and I painted looking down. I found a large mushroom and liked the way
it sat in the leaves.
We had a great laugh over my choice of subjects. It later became part
of an ongoing joke. When I would botch a painting he would say, “Well
you will always have the mushroom”.
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