Paint Every
Mountain: I completed and
published a small book about hiking and painting in mountains all over the
world, working with what I have found to be the only truly portable plein air
‘painting’ kit ─ a bag of crayons.
Travel Painting: eight
posts about an Alaska Cruise, one post about a harbour-to-harbour flight to
Vancouver, one post (how to set a broken arm) about what started out as an art
tour of Spain, but only got as far as the Seattle airport.
Creative
Archaeology: I completed the series ‘Time Travel
with a Bag of Crayons.’ Now in
chronological order, it includes some of the photos and sketches, such
as Machu Picchu, above, accumulated in past archaeology-related travel with the Art Gallery of
Greater Victoria, or the University of Victoria travel study program, or trips with my grandchildren.
Visualizing the
Anthropocene: I have added several illustrations relating to the climate effects of the Anthropocene. Some are straight-up landscapes and others
are interpretations/extrapolations of data relating to potential
de-carbonization processes.
Greeting cards: How
many – at least 30! I’ve lost count, as
some have been mailed to family and friends. This surprising productivity was
partly because of having to use up a pack of 50 blank watercolour cards that I
bought because nothing smaller was available when I just needed a few.
