"Inukshuk" Origanal watercolour painting, 11"x15", July 2017.
Since it was recently Canada's 150th birthday, I wanted to paint something that represents a part of Canada that often gets forgotten: the Great North and the first Peoples who called this land home long before it was named Canada.
An Inukshuk (or Inuksuk) is a stone structure traditionally made by the Inuit people of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. It was/is used as a land mark for navigation/travel and for hunting.
I started off with the sky, then the first layer of the Inukshuk, and then I proceeded to paint the ground. The rule with watercolours is to paint from the top down and from the background forward... but rules can always be broken :)
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