Painting an Entire Canyon with telescoped perspective

Johnston Canyon, Banff National Park
crayon, watercolour, and ink
©2025 Charlene Brown

Recently, I tried an experiment using a Google map of a canyon about 20 km west of Banff, as well as several Google Streetviews* along the canyon.  Each waterfall is placed with some accuracy but, as you might suspect, is much larger than it should be in a picture this size.

Originally, I considered including the Ink Pots, located about 3 km above Johnston Canyon, in the painting but soon realized that would be ridiculous.  I painted the Ink Pots in 2018. 

·      * Yes, Johnston Canyon has in fact been streetviewed and many of the waterfalls have also been photographed using a Google 360 degree camera. The photograph on the right, by Greg Belluomini, with the location just near the Upper Falls indicated in the square insert in the lower left corner, was one of my reference photographs.  You may recognize it in the painting above, about one third of the way down from the top of the picture.  Or you may not – I barely recognized it myself.