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Watercolour
©2012 Charlene Brown
‘Composite Viewpoints’ is the term I’ve chosen to introduce
the fact I couldn’t find a spot from which I could actually see everything I
wanted to include in this painting – the sliding centre, a few Whistler and Blackcomb
ski runs, the Overlord Glacier and Alta Lake.
This happens to me a lot, and has resulted in the occasional
Drama of Painting Plein Air, where roving art critics point out the error of my ways.
Other 'composite viewpoint' paintings, such as one in Alexandria, which includes the Pharos Lighthouse (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World no longer in existence) and Tehuacalco, in Mexico,
were like this painting of Whistler – they didn’t elicit any drama because
nobody was there when I lined up my fragmentary photos, sketches and site maps (and
in the case of Alexandria, illustrations from Wikipedia) to compose the final
image.
