Watercolour and crayon
©2021 Charlene Brown
The Eiffel Tower was built to be one of the main attractions at the Exposition
Universelle held in 1889 to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Fall
of the Bastille and the launch of the French Revolution. This painting will be one of the
illustrations in the first project listed below.
History of Design: A few years ago I put together a
cross-cultural 'History of Design' timeline covering art and architecture from the
third millennium BCE to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Since then I have illustrated the designs highlighted in this History of
Design, and published them in stories such as this one about Design in the Second Millennium CE in the History section on the online platform Medium. I plan to add The End of the Second
Millennium CE (19th and 20th Centuries) to this series.
Graphic Novel: As I mentioned last week, Canadians are kind of ‘electioned out’ so I won't be rushing to finish the graphic novel I’m working on – “By-election in Exceptional Pass” in 2022. But I’ve got lots of background landscapes to work on, so I’m going to borrow this sentence from my Plan for (would you believe?) 2016, on which I didn’t make much progress – “I hope to continue shifting from representational landscapes toward more stylized paintings and add some people to my landscapes” – and apply it to these backgrounds.
Creative Archaeology: And here’s a sentence from my Plan for 2021 – “In case my travel plans don’t work out any better than they did this year, I may re-interpret some of the photos and sketches I accumulated in past archaeology-related travel with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and University of Victoria travel study program” – on which I did make some progress, as I mentioned last week. I plan to continue the series ‘Time Travel with a Bag of Crayons’ working with the only truly portable plein air ‘painting’ kit I have discovered.
