Christmas
in Innsbruck
Watercolour
and crayon
©2018
Charlene Brown
This painting was one of the illustrations in Chapter 3 of the YA novel I finished this year.
The title of this blog post, 'Be Kind. Be calm. Be safe' the daily message from our Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, seems to have gotten British Columbia through this unprecedented year in better shape than most.
And here’s what I painted and wrote about on my blog in 2020.
· Travel painting: I’ve continued to paint locations I’d planned to see,
although most of this year’s plans are still on my bucket list.
·
I finished a YA novel about the career planning and launching
years in the lives of girls in six generations of my family—in fact I finished Chapter 5, part of which takes place in
2020, several times, as schools and universities opened and closed. Hoping it
will be published before the 'I Read Canadian' children’s and YA book promotion in
February.
·
Compilation
of Christmas letters from 1990: I added a few paintings to the photos already
in these letters, before editing them and putting them all together. This
turned out to be a much larger project than I thought it would be, but with
2020 being the kind of year it was, I also had lots more time available to do
it. I was able to complete 30 years
worth of letters – 95 pages!
