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Sunday, August 31, 2025

The terrible and avoidable carbon footprint of war

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The war in Ukraine drags on crayon, watercolour and ink © 2025 Charlene Brown I happened to read about the two Advisories on Climate Chang...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

One-off cards I’ve painted recently

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Cascade Ponds at Banff watercolour card ©2025 Charlene Brown Spirit bear mother and cubs watercolour card ©2025 Charlene Brown Lakes above O...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Painting an Entire Canyon with telescoped perspective

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Johnston Canyon, Banff National Park crayon, watercolour, and ink ©2025 Charlene Brown Recently, I tried an experiment using a Google map ...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

When we weren’t allowed to go to Alberta

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Victoria Glacier from Mt. Fairview watercolour and crayon © 2025 Charlene Brown I’ve been thinking lately of that awful time in the first ...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

We’ve lived here longer than anywhere

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Victoria watercolour and crayon © 2009 Charlene Brown We picked Victoria for retirement in 2000, of all the places in Alberta and British ...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Life in the city we’d never heard of in 1990

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Dubai watercolour and marker © 1995 Charlene Brown When my husband started working for Emirates Airline, the company had two Airbus 300 ai...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

The many moves of the Seventies and Eighties…

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 Toronto, as seen from Mississauga watercolour and crayon © 2017 Charlene Brown After being transferred from Colorado back to Canada, we l...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

My first logical move

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  Ottawa watercolour, ink and marker ©2017 Charlene Brown  In the summer of 1968, the Canadian government launched a cross-country recruit...