Art Adventures - by Patricia Banks©
Published November 2022 in Nanaimo Magazine and Voyager Mag
Published November 2022 in Nanaimo Magazine and Voyager Mag
It’s already November and my thoughts are on preparing for fun-filled celebrations during the upcoming winter season. It’s great to travel and see different landscapes to paint, especially while the weather is favorable for painting outdoors. Among other things, I like to make seasonal cards that are brightly coloured and either humorous, inspiring or both! This year is no exception. The trick is to come up with a few fitting designs.
We don’t get much snow or cold weather in the Pacific Northwest, but the little that we do get puts my imagination to work visualizing inviting and lovely snow scenes from my childhood. Of course, this scenery is more idealized in my mind than it probably was at the time. Snow reminds me of all the festivities we enjoyed in wintertime, such as warming ourselves next to a bonfire after sledding, and drinking hot chocolate while gripping our cups for additional heat through our mittens.
We loved ice skating on local frozen ponds in bright sunshine, watching our breath freeze in the cold air as it ascended, waking up to the sparkle of crisp, and white snowflakes gently falling from the heavens. A special treat was seeing fresh animal and bird tracks crossing the garden path out to open white fields, and the amazingly beautiful frost patterns that decorated the inside of our draughty glass windows.
The feelings and visions each person gathers and stores over a lifetime have a story of their own and are always ready to be shared creatively and joyfully with others. Anyone of these memories and many others could be painted with a sense of time and place. It’s now time to get started with paint brush in hand!
Happy Painting!
We loved ice skating on local frozen ponds in bright sunshine, watching our breath freeze in the cold air as it ascended, waking up to the sparkle of crisp, and white snowflakes gently falling from the heavens. A special treat was seeing fresh animal and bird tracks crossing the garden path out to open white fields, and the amazingly beautiful frost patterns that decorated the inside of our draughty glass windows.
The feelings and visions each person gathers and stores over a lifetime have a story of their own and are always ready to be shared creatively and joyfully with others. Anyone of these memories and many others could be painted with a sense of time and place. It’s now time to get started with paint brush in hand!
Happy Painting!
