Canada 150 Art Project – Saskatchewan

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

 

 

The Backstory: The final image in this Canada Art 150 series brings us to my home province of Saskatchewan. I know there are many who believe this place is one flat grain field stretching from horizon to horizon. Those folks might expect to see a painting of the great plains as seen cruising along the Trans Canada Highway.

But wait, as they say, there’s more to Saskatchewan than that. For example:

  • the Big Muddy badlands with its rough terrain and sandstone outcroppings
  • the grasslands and the Cypress Hills with their Ponderosa pines
  • the Great Sandhills with their shifting sands and desert topography
  • the parkland with its rolling hills, sloughs and willow bluffs
  • the Boreal forest with its lakes, spruce and aspen
  • the northern shield with its rock, muskeg, and moose

So, what did I choose to share with you? A country road. And not just any country road. This one runs past NW 17 33 26 W2 – the farm where I grew up eight miles south of the village of Viscount. The rise of land looked north to our home quarter on the right and to our land on the left.

This scene was my ‘coming home’ greeting at the end of a daily 40 minute school bus ride. The road was designated Thoen Road in 2008 in honor of our family, and in particular my Dad who drove the snow plow that kept this road open through all the winters of my childhood.

 

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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Canada 150 Art Project – Quebec

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

 

The Backstory:

I first visited Quebec to attend Expo 67 in Montreal. That experience opened my eyes to the world and seeded my lifelong interest in travel. The Expo extravaganza was something this prairie girl could never have imagined – even in her wildest dreams.

I’ve since returned many times to explore more of Montreal and Quebec City. I’m always delighted to have a chance to: converse in my sadly lacking but serviceable French, enjoy the amazing food, and soak up the European atmosphere.

I’m especially enamored by the Vieux-Quebec area with: the Chateau Frontenac, the funicular, the Breakneck Stair connecting upper and lower town, the shops, stone buildings and narrow cobblestone streets. La Fresque des Quebecois near Place Royale is a massive trompe-l’oeil mural that is definitely worth a visit.

This restaurant, Aux Anciens Canadiens, sits on Rue Saint-Louis. It operates out of one of the oldest houses in Quebec, which was originally built in 1675.

One of the most nerve-wracking experiences of my life as a Canadian was the night of the 1995 sovereignty referendum when (thankfully) Quebecers voted to stay in the confederation by a narrow margin of not quite one percent. I did not then and do not now wish for a separate Quebec. La Belle Province is most definitely a part of my Canada, and I look forward to exploring more of it 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.

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!

If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,

you can do so in the Let’s Keep In Touch area on any page of the Pauseworks Studio website.

Canada 150 Art Project – New Brunswick

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

 

The Backstory: New Brunswick is probably best known for its powerful tides that surge up and down the Bay of Fundy.   You can see the impact of that tide in action most dramatically at the iconic Hopewell Flowerpot Rocks.

Other curiosities of New Brunswick include the optical illusion of Magnetic Hill in Moncton where cars seemingly roll uphill, and the Reversing Falls of Saint John where the Fundy tides meet the Saint John River.

I’ve traveled to both Moncton and Saint John several times over the years for both work and pleasure. What intrigued me most on my recent visit to Saint John was the architecture of the city.

This image features the welcoming front steps and doors that can be found leading into the two story brick Italianate homes along Germain Street in downtown Saint John.

Many of the grand homes along this street were built following the Great Fire of 1877 which destroyed 40% of the city.

 

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!

 

If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,

you can do so in the Let’s Keep In Touch area on any page of the Pauseworks Studio website.

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!

 

If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,

you can do so in the Let’s Keep In Touch area on any page of the Pauseworks Studio website.

Canada 150 Art Project – Nova Scotia

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

 

The Backstory:

I love visiting Nova Scotia. It’s such an historic province with so much to see and enjoy.

The Halifax harbor is a great spot for adventuring and good food. Kids will love a tour on Theodore the Tugboat. I was thrilled to take a turn at the wheel of the Mar as we sailed through the harbor. Pier 21 offers engaging exhibits on the story behind immigration to Canada. You can also search the archives for stories of your own ancestors. The Maritime Museum is where you will find the inside scoop on the great 1917 Halifax Explosion.

And of course, no visit to the southern part of Nova Scotia is complete without a sidetrip to the very scenic and highly photographed, Peggy’s Cove.

My strongest remembrances of Nova Scotia are connected to our roadtrip on the winding Cabot Trail. I giggled at the naming of villages of Margaree: Margaree Forks, Margaree Harbour, East Margaree, Margeree Centre, Margaree Valley and NE Margaree. I breathed in the beauty of Bras d’Or Lake. We still own a handcrafted wooden sculpture of a weathered sailor we picked out in a shop in Baddeck.

This painting features Keltic Lodge which perches high on Ingonish Beach on the north eastern edge of the Cape Breton Highlands. My husband and I spent a memorable night there enjoying the amazing views of the sea and the sounds of a bagpiper who saluted the flag at both sundown and sunrise – mercifully at some distance from our room!

 

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!

If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,

you can do so in the Let’s Keep In Touch area on any page of the Pauseworks Studio website.

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