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Watercolour and crayon
©2012 Charlene Brown
This is the ‘snowbank-encrusted pond’ I referred to in my
last Bugaboos painting. It is the only
location where we saw evidence of the recent presence of bears (not the
still-steaming kind of evidence, just some roughly overturned rocks and
up-rooted bulbs). All hikers and
painters are accompanied by guides with radios, air horns and bear spray, but
close encounters are rare as the bears leave the areas where they know the
helicopters will touch down as soon as they hear them coming.
I’ll admit right now that none of the flowers in this tundra-like
meadow where we did our sketching were glacier lilies – which bloom in early
July – but I decided to include some anyway, after
figuring out how to paint them using masking fluid a couple of years ago.
