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On the Road, 1970
Painted a couple of days ago – acrylic on 16″ x 12″ canvas board. I have a vague memory of my father painting this same scene 50 years ago. I guess he thought it was picturesque, too.
We scramble up to the top of Mt Temple and wrote our names on a slip of paper that we found inside a small metal box jammed under a rock. I took a few pictures and we left in a hurry as there was a big dark cloud coming our way.
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Meet You in St Louis
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The Flying Florentine
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CANADA 156
Canada Day plein air painting challenge. I rode around on my bike for almost one hour before I saw this old church on a side street. The location was perfect, in the shade and out of the way, so I set up my portable easel and paint box and got to work. I’ve no idea how old this place is, but it has a bland modern church on the front of it, which conceals this lovely older part completely from the main street. Nobody builds in this style today, but I like it better than many contemporary buildings.
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North Head Lighthouse
North Head Lighthouse stands atop a rocky promontory a mile or two north of the Columbia River mouth. Long empty beaches flank the promontory to the north and south, interrupted only by the river that dumps its enormous load of water and sand forming the most dangerous river bar of the entire Pacific coast of the Americas. The Columbia drains an area as large as France, and the currents, waves, wind, and shifting sands at the river mouth create a tempestuous turmoil that has claimed countless boats and ships.
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It’s Bloomsday Again
Once again I haven’t read ULYSSES by James Joyce. I tried but gave up. I am not ashamed because I am in good company, most of mankind that is. To save you the trouble of reading the first 30 odd pages, here is a synopsis. The rest of it would seem to be more or less similar.
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Harbour Scene
Cowichan Bay is a small seaside village on the inland side of Vancouver Island. I often do small watercolour studies on site, but for a large painting I work at home from a photograph.
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Britannia & the Empress
I set up my stool on the sidewalk and was sketching when I overheard a pedicab driver who had stopped on the street behind me. He was regaling his clients with stories about the Empress Hotel, and how Churchill once gave a speech there, and how they have a Royal Suite, etc. It sounded like baloney, but the tourists were eating up. Oddly, earlier on my ride into town I found a commemorative series of slides from the 1971 Royal Visit to BC. The original price was one dollar, and I got it for 90 cents, still wrapped in the original plastic!
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