Lake McArthur
Watercolour and oil pastel
©2018 Charlene Brown
I’ve never been to Lake McArthur, although it's quite close to Lake O'Hara in Yoho National
Park. This painting is based on some
pictures of Lake McArthur I found on the internet. I had assumed the stunted
timberline-type trees were larch, a deciduous conifer that changes colour,
spectacularly, in the fall. After looking more closely at various photographs, I
realized they were spruce, a regular conifer. But I had my heart set on orange
trees, so these are transplants from the Opabin Plateau, behind and
below the mountain on the extreme left. I’ve been there and I know the plateau has lots of larch, because I've painted them.
