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©2022 Charlene Brown
Since a horrible afternoon four days after my last blog post, on August 21 of last year, I have been overwhelmed by the sudden collapse, rapid decline and death of my elderly cousin who lived here in Victoria. She was not my closest relative but I was hers, as she had no brothers, sisters or children. Although she had several cousins, I was the only one living in Victoria. Plus we were dear friends.
At first I was unable
to write or paint anything I was so distracted by my ever-evolving
responsibilities as her next-of-kin. I did
resume painting after a few months, but without much direction, and I have not
written anything until now.
At this point I’m
going to pick up where I left off on the unfinished projects in my 'Plan for 1150
Words in 2022' as if it had been written in January 2023.
Graphic Novel: I have stylized some of my representational
landscapes to use as backgrounds for the book’s illustrations. People and conversation ‘balloons’ will be
added to these stylized backgrounds.
Creative
Archaeology: I plan to re-interpret some of the photos and sketches I
accumulated in past archaeology-related travel with the Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria and the University of Victoria travel study program, to continue the
series ‘Time Travel with a Bag of Crayons’ working with what I have found to be
the only truly portable plein air ‘painting’ kit.
Paint Every Mountain: I will begin compiling a small book about hiking and painting in
mountains all over the world, equipped with the same plein air bag of crayons painting kit.
Predictive Analytics: I plan to continue a series which had 14 entries when I
stopped writing a year ago. I will emphasize extrapolating and visualizing
(and painting) unanticipated outcomes.
