Canada 150 Art Project – British Columbia

Welcome to the second in a series of ten watercolor paintings to honor Canada’s Sesquicentennial – this one featuring British Columbia. Read on to learn more about the backstory behind this painting, and to find out how you can make this painting yours.

The Backstory:   Beautiful British Columbia! That’s what it says on their license plates, and they are definitely telling the truth. There is endless beauty across this westernmost Canadian province.

This particular scene looks across False Creek from Granville Island towards downtown Vancouver. This area looks a lot different today than it did in 1986 when we visited it during the World’s Fair – Expo 1986.

I have visited Vancouver and other parts of British Columbia many times over the years for pleasure and for work. Dave and I honeymooned our way through the province in 1974. A couple years later, I chaperoned a dozen teen-agers to a Western Canadian 4-H Conference in Vancouver. A colleague and I drove a jam-packed 15 passenger van – with no air conditioning – in the high heat of August, tenting all the way there and back. Memorable, for sure!

Here are a few other memories of BC that also stand out in my mind:

• watching the waves roll in along Pacific Rim’s Long Beach near Tofino
• exploring the Inner Harbor of Victoria
• dining at Sooke Harbor House
• visiting the wineries along the Naramata Bench
• catching the salmon run on the Adams River
• boating with friends on Okanagan Lake
• skiing through the snow ghosts at Big White
• hiking through the Othello Tunnels along the Coquihalla River
• riding the ferry across Kootenay Lake
• cooling our overheated hoofies in the refreshing waters of the Similkameen River, and
• singing around a community firepit at a campground in Blue River (north of Kamloops)

I know I haven’t yet made all my BC memories and look forward to returning again and again in the years ahead.

How You Can Make This Painting Yours: In honor of our country’s 2017 anniversary celebrations, I’ve created one watercolor painting to honor each province.

One unique provincial landscape, seascape or streetscape will be featured each week throughout the summer. Ten paintings are up for grabs – one for each province – and one each week. This week – this beauty from BC.

Each original painting is 8” x 10” in size and each one will arrive mounted in a double white mat bringing the outer dimensions to 11” x 14” – ready to pop into a standard frame of your own choosing.

The price for each painting will be $150 (taxes included) plus $15 for shipping to anywhere in Canada.

If you are looking for a unique remembrance of Canada 150, and you’ve always wanted to buy an original watercolor from the Pauseworks Studio, here’s your chance.

Just send me an email message with the words ‘Canada 150 – I’ll Take It’ in the subject line. The first reader to call dibs on each week’s masterpiece takes it. Good luck to all!

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