Bear Glacier, British Columbia - plein air to studio painting -

In May, we flew to Seattle to visit family 

and retrieve our pickup. 

We drove home to Juneau 

via the Cassiar Hwy, Alcan 

and the Alaska State Ferry system from 

Skagway, AK.

 I painted a few times along the way.

One place we had always wanted to visit

 is Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK 

so we made the left turn at Highway 37A 

from Meziadin Junction at Milepost J 97.5.

We "ran into" the beautiful Bear Glacier, in British Columbia:

and I made a quick pencil and painting sketch:

Bear Glacier, BC   pencil  5 x 4"

Bear Glacier, BC    oil on linen plein air sketch    8 x 6 inches   

Matt took a couple of photos 

while I was working (it was pretty chilly, 

so I am bundled up):

Back home, found a piece of Masonite that I had gessoed black.

Sketched in general guides with my pastel pencil.

And ... the result:

Bear Glacier, BC    oil on Masonite panel  18 x 11.75

Thank you so much for viewing! 

Hope you are all having a good summer - 

Solstice is almost here!