Hudson's Bay Honker

Original Watercolour with pen&ink  9X13"

My son lives in beautiful Victoria B.C. and when I visit him there, I take my sketch pad & travel palette and hang out at the Esquimalt Lagoon. I took the photo for this painting there, and did several quick sketches of the swans and geese who allowed me within a few feet of them, or who wandered close by as I sat on a log.  This bigger piece was done in studio and because the goose and the Husdon's Bay stripes are both so quintessentially Canadian, I decided to combine them.