Burrard Inlet Sketch

• The afternoon sun shines on Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet in this 9″x 6.75″ acrylic sketch.

  

  Burrard Inlet sketch

  

  The sketch helps me choose the colours of the final painting that are on this chart

  

  This is the start of the 33″x44″ painting

  

  Burrard Inlet progress 2

  

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  Burrard Inlet progress 8

  

  Burrard Inlet | 2019 |Acylic on board 44″x33″ | Price available upon request

  

  I also painted Pacific Swell in 1987 from this same location on the Lion’s Gate Bridge

  October 20, 2019

•        I live in Vancouver near the Olympic Village, 7 blocks from the salt water of False Creek and a man made fresh water course in Hinge Park.  I have been watching beavers there for a couple of years. There are dens at Hinge Park, Stanley Park and Vanier Park in Vancouver.  The closeness of the West End condo towers suggests the absurdity of beavers living in Vancouver’s down-town.

  A den is a peaked pile of logs and mud in a conical or lean-to shape. It is easy to miss if you have never seen a den. In May the beavers have their babies and stay inside the den for a month. The babies will leave the den in June.

  

  The Kitsalano beaver den is conical shaped

  

  Swimming beaver

  

  Kitsalano beaver

  

  Beaver den Lost Lagoon

  

  The beaver den in Hinge Park is a lean-to against a hillside

   

  

  Beaver den at Beaver Lake, Stanley Park

  

  Culvert blocked by beaver and their den in Stanley Park

   

   

   

   

   

  

  May 14, 2019