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Winter evening at the hot
pool
Watercolour and gouache
©2012 Charlene Brown
I like the idea of ‘abstracting’ travel paintings but, having taken the
trouble to get to the locations I paint, I like them to remain recognizable. You
might say they’re stylized rather than abstracted, in that they almost always
are much less ‘abstract’ than I had originally intended. Winter Evening at the hot pool is a darkened, stylized version of
one of the Banff
postcards I sent to other participants in the Postcard From My Walk international
postcard exchange. It was the last one, so is displayed first in this series of all the postcards I painted.
The Postcard From My Walk series is now in its final
month and I’m really going to miss receiving these tiny postcard masterpieces
from artists all over the world. But I’m
happy to say we’re starting a new project in a couple of months… I hope you'll all be watching for it!
