Art with Maya

Maya is a visual artist and art teacher, based in Whitehorse, Yukon. She was born and raised in Israel, and has traveled to the United States, Canada and Europe. She teaches art classes and workshops across Yukon in varied frameworks, for painting, drawing, crafts and more. She is also exhibiting in varied art galleries across Canada. Her work refl ects the connections of art, love and nature, through colours, and how it empowers us and our communities through colours. Her website is mayaart.ca and you can fi nd her on social media at “Art by Maya”.

MINI WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES

Hello artists! Today’s art is inspired by the beauty of a single colour—blue! Our art:

Ilove blue colours. Our work today will be a great example of how we can make a beautiful landscape, even if we only have one colour. We will be inspired by monochromatic colours/blue hues and perspective. I encourage you to explore blue hues with me, but also to keep exploring many other colours after today, whatever you love best. Remember, we can’t make mistakes in art! Today we’ll make our little mountain landscape. Let’s start!

What you’ll need:

1. Design mountain lines on your paper as in the picture—bonus point to be inspired by your favorite hiking places!

 Watercolour paper  Watercolours  Brushes and a water container  Pencil

4. Add a little white to the same blue you used in the mountains and add it to the next layer of mountains. 5. Blend a bit more white in with your blue and add it to the next layer of mountains. Repeat with as many mountain layers as you have.

Hope you enjoyed this time’s art and feel free to send me pictures of your artworks through “contact me” at mayaart.ca. I love seeing your art!

Follow up with art by Maya on Facebook, Instagram or my mail list (at mayaart.ca) and stay tuned for Arts in the Park art projects, summer art classes and projects coming up!

Colourfully yours,

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2. Get two blue colors ready

Take one blue (I used ultramarine, but anything works) and add white to make a lighter color for the sky. Colour the sky above the mountains. 3. Take another blue (I used phthalo, but, again, anything works!) and add it as on the fi rst, closest, layer of mountains. The mountains that are closer to you will be darker. This helps to create perspective and depth.

Enjoy! Bonus: add a bird/other animals in your landscape.

Maya Rosenberg

PHOTOS: Maya Rosenberg

PHOTO: Pixabay

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Paul David Rath was born in Brazil on November 4, 1957 to Canadian Lutheran missionaries Ernest and Crystal (Hutchison) Rath. He passed away suddenly at home on June 4, 2021, at the age of 63 years. Paul was a devoted father, grandfather, brother, son and husband, as well as a hunter, a sherman, a joker, a toastmaster, a punster, a poet, a storyteller, a book collector, and a tremendous friend. He was the pet of two dogs, Bear and Boo, back seat drivers who also thought he was great fun. Paul is survived by his wife Lisa Douglas, his son, Jonathan, his son Aaron and his wife Hollie (MacIntosh) and beloved grandchildren George and Emerie, by his siblings, sisters Rosemarie (Richard) Klein and Katharine (Cecil) Howell and brother Daniel (Lily) Rath, and their families, and by Laureen Baker, the mother of his sons.

Brazil couldn’t keep Paul long enough to even begin his compulsory military service as a Brazilian. Ernest and Crystal brought him to the North — Alberta’s Peace River Country — at the age of ve and then to Kelowna, in the Okanagan Valley, where he learned to scout Okanagan Lake for the legendary Ogopogo instead. Later, Paul made homes of his own in Victoria, Oliver, Prince Rupert and the uppermost northwest corner of British Columbia, where he learned to scout the roadside for moose made out of trees twisted by cold and wind. It helped the miles y by.

In addition to laughing with delight at life, Paul committed himself with respect and diligence to many jobs over his life: People’s Food Mart in Kelowna, Revenue Canada, Canada Post, and selling life insurance. When the last of those didn’t work out, he devoted 25 years to the Canada Border Service Agency and retired at the rank of Superintendent. In retirement, he was a maintenance contractor. When there was work that needed to be done, Paul always stood up to do it. His sense of ethics was of the highest order. He loved all parts of his job, except maybe shovelling snow. To him, that just didn’t seem fair. Such might just be the mysteries that attend Canadians born in Brazil. Paul shovelled the snow.

Paul was an avid traveller and rejoiced in seeing the world with Lisa. In recent years, they travelled to Antarctica, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tanzania and Amsterdam. Yes, to him it was a country in itself! A 2020 cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic.

Gi ed storyteller that he was, he turned even that slow trip into an adventure.

Paul especially loved his journeys across Canada. One of his favourite destinations was a birthday trip to Churchill, Manitoba to see the Polar Bears, which, he agreed, were just as good as the grizzly bears back home in the North, who ate dandelions o his lawn. One of his favourite Canadian treasures was a collection of red and white tulips, the colour of the Canadian ag, which he brought back from Ottawa. ey had been a gi to Canada from a grateful Dutch nation for liberation in World War II. Paul was so proud to be Canadian that he dug his tulips free of the snow every spring so they could bloom before winter.

Paul came from Russian-German farmers on the Black Sea and he loved the earth. He delighted in everything

that grew from the soil and loved to sink his hands into it. He was passionate about gardening, always keeping his grandfather’s antique tools polished and ready for work. Even the North couldn’t stop him. He invented bear-proof ways to compost and was intensely proud of his Halloween pumpkins. Every fall, they could be seen ripening on the windowsill, so big he never could quite wrap his farmer’s hands completely around them.

Paul was an accomplished writer. From studying poetry and short story writing at the University of Victoria in the 1970s, he wrote occasional poems and ballads for many people. He never gave up his dream of being published himself and became a contributing writer of the Arts and Entertainment Magazine What’s Up Yukon.

Paul’s greatest dream was to be a father and grandfather. In February of 2021, his second greatest dream also came true, with the publication of a memoir of white shing on Okanagan Lake: Fishing With My Fathers. e book’s warm and wise portrait of fathers, sons, God and sh was a bestseller through the spring. To be able to share his stories with the world brought Paul great joy.

Paul had all the gi s of a pastor, a talent he turned into an active life on Facebook, bringing friends and family together from across the continent with silly puns, heartwarming sayings and, every time he travelled, enthusiastic animal reports, richly illustrated with photographs. Pandemic isolation from Coast to Coast was lightened by Paul’s devotion to keeping everyone focussed on joy.

Paul touched many people in his life. He was a friend, a counsellor, a champion and a protector to so many people, and caught everyone up in his care. He le no-one out.

In lieu of owers, donations can be made to one of Paul’s favourite Canadian charities: World Vision, Operation Smile, the Heart and Stroke Society, the MS Society, and the Red Cross.

A memorial will be held in November in Penticton. Following the service, his ashes will be spread at the shing point across from Ogopogo’s lair, where many of the stories from Fishing With My Fathers came to life and he learned his greatest lesson, to pass on the gi s and care given to him. He did it so well.

Partnerships are key to the success of the Eagle Gold Mine. (L to R): Yukon Premier Sandy Silver, Victoria Gold President & CEO John McConnell, First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun Chief Simon Mervyn at the mine’s ground breaking ceremony, prior to the mine’s construction, in August 2017.

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On behalf of the entire Victoria Gold team, I extend my best wishes to all Yukoners as we come together to refl ect upon and celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday, June 21. This very important day provides us all with an opportunity to recognize the rich histories, cultures, voices and traditional knowledge of Yukon First Nations here in the territory and of Indigenous peoples from coast to coast to coast. We are very proud of our company’s long-standing partnership with the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun and its citizens, within whose traditional territory the Eagle Gold Mine is located and operates. We look forward to the ongoing dialogue this partnership brings and to continued meaningful and respectful working relationships throughout, and beyond, the life of the mine. My family and I will be honouring National Indigenous Peoples Day and the longest day of the year from home this year and encourage everyone to enjoy exploring Indigenous culture, experiences, diversity and achievements in a safe, physically-distanced manner. Sincerely,

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