Watercolour, crayon and marker
©2016 Charlene Brown
As you may know, Ottawa is nowhere near the
Bow River and is actually situated on the Ottawa River…
The Bow is in the Rockies and carries
traces of all the glacier-fed lakes that flow into it, whereas the Ottawa is just sort of river-coloured, so I bumped it up – hence
the name, ‘Ottawa on the Bow.’
I didn’t have any pictures that included all
three of the (in my opinion) most paintable buildings in Ottawa – the National
Gallery, the Chateau Laurier – and the
Parliamentary Library, so I used this Google Streetview from Gatineau, on the Quebec side of the river.
