Canadian Landscape Series - Painting 5 of 13: Tombstone Park, Yukon

This is a post about Tombstone Park, Yukon - 1 of 13 paintings in my 2024 Canadian Landscape series. If you would like to read about the series as a whole, you can find that post here. ​

Tombstone Park, Yukon

Tombstone Park, Yukon (2023), part of my Canadian Landscape series

​Tombstone Park, Yukon was the fifth painting I completed from my Canadian Landscape series. It was completed in July 2023. My goal for this series was to capture the essence of each province and territory in a painting. 

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When I think of Yukon - or any of the northern territories for that matter - I think it sounds cold! I think of snow and the northern lights. 

After I did some research, I learned there are several beautiful places in Yukon that would be worthy of a painting. When I found this photo of Tombstone Park, I knew this was what I wanted to paint for Yukon! 

I was captivated by the jagged edges of these unique mountain formations that really do look like tombstones. I was inspired to do a dark greyscale painting with a bright northern lights sky. ​​

Very occasionally, I will get a vision for a painting  that I want to make, and it will come together relatively effortlessly as I envisioned as long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other. Tombstone Park was one of those paintings. It was satisfying to make.​

Tombstone Park, Yukon (2023)

​The next painting I completed from this series was Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.

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