Painting in the Canadian Rockies

8″x10″ oil on canvas Canadian Rockies

Since my husband was attending a conference in Banff, I had the opportunity to head out every day and paint in the mountains.

I used our rental car to drive around and look for a beautiful spot to paint. Well, let’s say the most beautiful because it was all so beautiful. We flew into Calgary and rented a car, we did not drive from Texas!

I had noticed a beautiful valley along the scenic road on the way to Banff so I headed there one morning. There was a wonderful mountain right there so I set up. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about painting out there all by myself, but I felt comfortable. The only traffic on this “scenic route” were tourists and a car pulled over about every 3 or 4 minutes into this little rest stop area.

This turned out to be such a fun day. A small group of tourists pulled over and asked to take my picture. They all took my picture. Then they wanted to take turns pretending to paint! That was a first and I found it very funny. This is Minda, visiting from China, and I told him to go ahead and finish the painting! A friendly couple from Denver, Colorado soon pulled up and joined us. I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes.

Here is one of Minda’s friends taking a photo of him painting. I told Minda I would put him on my blog. Hello Minda!

We stayed a few days in Lake Louise. This is a view of the lake with a glacier at the far end. We hiked to the far end of the lake.

Another day we hiked up into the mountains 2 1/2 hours to Larch Valley. These larch trees turn

yellow for only a few weeks a year so we went up to see them. Also made it harder to get a hotel room since it turned out to be one of the busiest weekend of the year. The hike down was faster, only 1 1/2 hours. I hope we’ll go back to the Canadian Rockies one day, it was a great trip.

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