Mount Marathon Canvas Print

Done from a photograph I took when visiting here. We were lucky enough to be in Seward, Alaska on the 4th of July. Since 1915 there has been an organized race where 350 men, 350 women and 250 juniors race up the mountain and back down again. It all began in 1908 when there was an informal bet; the challenge was who could do it in less than an hour. It was incredible to watch..and nothing unusual to see folks with blood, mud, grass and sometimes all three on them, at the finish line. The top is 3022 feet above sea level and the trek is 3.1 miles

I was born and raised in Huntsville, Ontario and moved to Ottawa as a young adult. Married for more than 50 years now; 3 sons, 3 daughter-in-laws, 6 grandsons and 4 granddaughters! As a young girl I remember receiving a paint-by-number for Christmas one year and spent almost every free moment working at it until it was completed...and of course that was on the top of the list the following year. It wasn't until some 5 decades later that I began taking some tole painting classes at night school. My real excitement for painting began the first time I tried to paint from a photo of our two grandsons ... I was so thrilled to see it actually looked like them (well, from behind...no faces involved)...I haven't really stopped working at it...