Canada 150 Art Project – Alberta

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

The Backstory:

Alberta is right next door to my home province of Saskatchewan; and it’s the province I’ve visited most often over the years – both for work and pleasure.

Alberta has plenty of attractions – from the Japanese Gardens in Lethbridge, to the world famous Calgary Stampede, to the Badlands and Hoodoos of Drumheller, to the many diversions of the West Edmonton Mall.

As a family, we made an annual Labor Day weekend trek to Edmonton for some twenty years to visit a favorite aunt and uncle. We now travel as often as possible to Calgary to visit our two youngest grandsons and their parents.

In addition to friends and family, what draws me back again and again to Alberta are the Canadian Rocky Mountains. In fact, just this year, we took another trek along the Banff Jasper Parkway and enjoyed both old and new sites along the way.

Here are a few of my favorite remembrances from our many visits to the Rockies:

• the colorful poppies sprinkled across the grounds of Chateau Lake Louise
• hiking the Lake Agnes Tea House Trail and the views along the way
• sketching the beautiful blue-green waters of Moraine Lake
• camping near and hiking up Johnston Canyon
• sweet tooth purchases at the fudge shop on Banff Avenue
• whitewater rafting with the family on the nearby Kananaskis River
• the bugling elk roaming the grounds of Jasper Park Lodge
• the thundering Athabasca Falls as they carve their way through their rocky sidewalls
• taking a wintry ice walk through the frozen waterfalls in the depths of Maligne Canyon

This painting features beautiful Lake Louise, one of the most visited and most photographed sights in the Rockies.

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.

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 ( to pat@patkatzart.com) 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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