{"id":717,"date":"2017-08-30T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/?p=717"},"modified":"2017-08-30T16:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:23:23","slug":"canada-150-art-project-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/recent-work\/canada-150-art-project-saskatchewan\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada 150 Art Project &#8211; Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Welcome to the last in a series of ten watercolor paintings to honor Canada&#8217;s Sesquicentennial &#8211; 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Canada-150-Saskatchewan-100-550dpi-8x10-crop_edited-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-719\" src=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Canada-150-Saskatchewan-100-550dpi-8x10-crop_edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Canada-150-Saskatchewan-100-550dpi-8x10-crop_edited-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Canada-150-Saskatchewan-100-550dpi-8x10-crop_edited-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Canada-150-Saskatchewan-100-550dpi-8x10-crop_edited-1-200x160.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Backstory:\u00a0<\/strong>The final image in this Canada Art 150 series\u00a0brings us to my home province of Saskatchewan. I know there are many who believe\u00a0this 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.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, as they say, there\u2019s more to Saskatchewan than that. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Big Muddy badlands with its rough terrain and sandstone outcroppings<\/li>\n<li>the grasslands and the Cypress Hills with their Ponderosa pines<\/li>\n<li>the Great Sandhills with their shifting sands and desert topography<\/li>\n<li>the parkland with its rolling hills, sloughs and willow bluffs<\/li>\n<li>the Boreal forest with its lakes, spruce and aspen<\/li>\n<li>the northern shield with its rock, muskeg, and moose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>This scene was my \u2018coming home\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How You Can Make This Painting Yours: <\/strong>In honor of our country\u2019s 2017 anniversary celebrations, I\u2019ve created one watercolor painting to honor each province.<\/p>\n<p>One unique provincial landscape, seascape or streetscape will be featured each week throughout the summer. Ten paintings are up for grabs \u2013 one for each province \u2013 and one each week.<\/p>\n<p>Each original painting is 8\u201d x 10\u201d in size and each one will arrive mounted in a double white mat bringing the outer dimensions to 11\u201d x 14\u201d &#8211; ready to pop into a standard frame of your own choosing.<\/p>\n<p>The price for each painting will be $150 (taxes included) plus $15 for shipping to anywhere in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a unique remembrance of Canada 150, and you&#8217;ve always wanted to buy an original watercolor from the Pauseworks Studio, here&#8217;s your chance.<\/p>\n<p>Just send me an email message ( to <a href=\"mailto:pat@patkatzart.com\">pat@patkatzart.com<\/a>) with the words \u2018Canada 150 &#8211; I&#8217;ll Take It&#8217; in the subject line. The first reader to call dibs on each week&#8217;s masterpiece takes it. Good luck to all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>you can do so in the Let&#8217;s Keep In Touch area on any page of the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pauseworks.com\/patkatzartwp\/\"><em>Pauseworks Studio website<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the last in a series of ten watercolor paintings to honor Canada&#8217;s Sesquicentennial &#8211; this one featuring Saskatchewan. 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