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This is Victoria
Watercolour, marker and Photoshop™
We enjoyed the Christmas Show put on by Victoria floral
designers last weekend, well ahead of the holidays so we’d have time to
organize supplies and put to good use some of what we learned about decorating
with combinations of evergreens, flowers and – would you believe – strips of arbutus
bark. I probably won’t even try, but painting some of what we saw appealed to
me.
Attempting to copy exactly all the details and nuances
of any one of the truly splendid designs on display didn’t seem right (or even
possible) but I decided that an incorporation of some of my favourites into a ‘landscape’
painting of Victoria could be an appropriate way to interpret this wonderful
show. The picture includes the Provincial Legislature (which is in fact completely
outlined with hundreds of lights) on the left, the city gardens for which Victoria is famous, a couple of boats on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and, in the distance, the base of
the mountains on the Olympic peninsula.
