First light in a winter wonderland
Watercolour and oil
pastel
©2020 Charlene Brown
This is the view of The Three Sisters, Ha Ling and the snow-covered evergreen and larch trees, from the hotel in Canmore where we spent a few days during our Christmas trip to
Alberta. (Specifically, it’s the view from the hot tub.)
This post is a review
of progress on various blog projects during 2019 and my plans for these
projects in 2020:
· Travel painting: I continued to
paint mostly landscapes, writing about out-of-the-way British Columbia landscapes
‘less painted,’ as well as writing 10 blog posts about a June 2019 UVic travel
study program trip to Newfoundland + Labrador I also explored the painting possibilities on seven trips that are only in
the planning, or even bucket-listed’ stage.
· Clean energy haiku/haiga
project: In November, I published ‘Inventing
the Future with Clean Energy Haiku,‘ a book containing
50 illustrated poems using ‘found’ haiku and computer-stylized versions of my
Canadian landscapes. It’s available on Amazon.
· I completed
a first draft of an autofictional novel about the career planning and launching
years in the lives of young women in six generations of my family. In 2020 I
plan to complete this book – as a collection of six short stories beginning in
1898, 1925, 1958, 1987, 2017 and 2042 – as recommended in an editorial
evaluation by Friesen Press here in Victoria.
· A few years ago I put together
a cross-cultural 'History of Design' timeline covering art and architecture
from prehistoric times to the beginning of the twenty-first century. I linked tables from this
History of Design to six cross-cultural ‘time capsules’ I compiled in 2018.
· Compilation of Christmas
letters since 1990: I plan to add a few paintings to the photos already in these
letters, before editing them and putting them all together. Several 2019 blog
posts were about 'missing' paintings of places I visited but didn’t paint at the
time, and I plan to continue painting these additional pictures.
