Victoria Glacier from Mt. Fairview
I’ve been thinking lately of that awful time in the first stages of the pandemic before any vaccines were developed and interprovincial travel was discouraged. My obligatory Alberta Rockies paintings at that time were often based on pictures sent to me by our Calgary daughter. She and her family, like many Albertans, found themselves exploring parts of their province even they had not been to before.
I put a small semi-abstract sketch of
Victoria Glacier from Mt. Fairview in my 9 September 2020 blogpost using for reference a picture our
daughter had taken of her daughter in July of that year. After I finished the painting above, re-using
that picture as one of my references, it occurred to me I should have tried
including our granddaughter…. It was too
late to paint her so I Photoshopped her in. I’m not sure what she was pointing at in the
original photo, but the way she was placed in my painting has her pointing at
the Plain of Six Glaciers, a small green plateau which can be seen just below the right hand end of
Victoria Glacier.
