1150 Words by Charlene Brown

Pictures (said to be worth 1000 words) plus 150 words – about watercolour and computer painting.

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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Small town living after my year in the big city

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Pine Point Beach, Deep River ON watercolour and crayon ©2025 Charlene Brown A job offer at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories brought ab...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

I still think of this as the ‘new’ city hall

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Toronto City Hall 1965 crayon and watercolour ©2025 Charlene Brown The first place I lived after I returned from a year in Europe, was Tor...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

My first Christmas away from home

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Innsbruck watercolour and oil pastel © 2018 Charlene Brown Until the summer of 1963, I'd never really been anywhere but Alberta except...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

I used to live here

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Wrangell-St. Elias Range from the Alaska Highway crayon, watercolour and marker ©2025 Charlene Brown Last week, I painted Pikes Peak near ...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Experimental solution to electricity transmission problem

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  Pike's Peak and the Garden of the Gods crayon and watercolour ©2025 Charlene Brown In an Anthropocene article, Shipping Solar Power...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

A great trip with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

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Retiro Park, Madrid                        Park Güell by Gaudi, Barcelona                                  Cantabria Triptych of a trip no...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Favourite Google Streetview 'location' paintings from 2009

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LasBrujas at Liorna, Mexico City , Mexico  Duke Street,  Halifax NS Canada  Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast , Northern Ireland, UK ...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Where the 16 September 1810 call to arms triggered the Mexican War of Independence

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The Cry of Dolores crayon, watercolour ink © 2025 Charlene Brown The Baroque  Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, sometimes known as ...
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Charlene Brown
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Charlene is a graduate of the University of Alberta (BSc) and the University of Colorado (MBA), now retired from a career in the Canadian Public Service. During the ten years her husband was with Emirates Airline, Charlene travelled extensively, served as Administrator of the Dubai Arts Centre, and wrote about painting, archaeology and future studies for the Khaleej Times and the Gulf News. She has written 1150 Words by Charlene Brown since 2009.
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