I have been to Skagway twice before and have painted State St. several times, most recently in 2019. It looked much the same, with two cruise ships docked at the end of the main street on this year’s cruise.
I’ll continue ‘Sketching an Alaska Cruise’ this Sunday. For today, here’s a quick mid-year review (yes, the year is in fact half over!) of how I’m coming along with my plans for 1150 Words, as set out at the beginning of this year.
Paint Every Mountain: I finished and published this book about hiking and painting in mountains all over the world.
Creative Archaeology: I have continued to build
the series ‘Time Travel with a Bag of Crayons’ equipped with the same plein
air painting kit I used for ‘Paint Every Mountain.’ The series, now in chronological order, will
include some of the photos and sketches I accumulated in past
archaeology-related travel with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the travel
study program at the University of Victoria.
Predictive Analytics This has evolved into a series of essays and illustrations of the increasingly drastic climate effects of the Anthropocene.
