This image is actually imaginary, to start off the series.   I could never have fit a fiddle into my kayak.

See if you can spot all the animals.  There is a raccoon, a turtle, an opossum, a fish, a moose and a wolf.

I omitted the animals and the bush on the left .  2012-05-17

This is of a real overnight stop on Georgian Bay north of Honey Harbour, Ontario, Canada, and is drawn from memory. 

I intended to continue north up the east side of Georgian Bay, but I was intimidated by the battering waves once beyond the islands and their lee.  I continued for another overnight, on an island back toward Honey Harbour.   This was all solo by kayak around September 1987 or so.

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This is where I camped the next night after the previous painting.  It is south of where I was, closer to Honey Harbour.  The back side of this towering island in a channel, was not as steep so I climbed up to the level area at the top from the back side.  There were a lot of cottages in the area, so this was prime real estate to me as I searched for a suitable overnight spot.

This painting will require a lot of control of the values to distinguish the various islands in the majority of the image.  This is intended to be a morning image, with the sun rising over the right shoulder of the viewer, and just striking the tops of the trees.

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