Green Grotto, Frontenac Arch
(2013)
Subject: Close up plein air painting of ferns, moss, and lichens on a granite cliff face Dimensions (inches): 7 x 5 Medium: oil on canvas Description: 14 April finds me perched on my paint box, peering into a mossy grotto in the flank of a high crest of granite that overlooks a wetland in the rugged landscape of eastern Ontario's "Frontenac Arch". On the back side of the crest of granite I discover the green grotto, a vertical cleft in the rock, upholstered with mosses, laced and dripping with mossy liverworts, and patterned with reddish purple Peltigera lichen with tiny red fingernail-like fruiting bodies. The several fronds of a winter-tired Marginal Wood Fern hang like a green silk scarf in the centre of the part that I select for my composition.
Original Available For Sale:
Yes
Price: $250.00 US
