Acrylic on canvas, circa 1970.

View from an island in Algonquin Provincial Park. This painting was rendered from a sketch I made while camping. Two visual effects caught my eye when viewing this scene and I wanted to see how it would work out on canvas.

One was the three different reflective qualities displayed by the water; some almost without detail due to the reflected glare of the sun, some showing waves, and some areas showing a high sheen due to the calming effect of vegetation just below the surface.

The second visual effect was what is called "atmospheric perspective" whereby the more distant an object is, the more hazy, monochromatic, and less detailed it appears.