Down Town La Crosse, part 1

River City Gallery is sponsoring an event called “Downtown Paint Around”. All week artists are invited to paint in any medium within a mile of downtown.

I’m planning to do a watercolor and an acrylic painting centered on the Cathedral of St. Joseph of the Workingman. Well, isn’t that a great name to a church? St. Joseph is even holding a saw and a wood chisel.

Monday is a hazy morning, so no sky drama. I’m doing this as an ink and watercolor in a 6×8 format

While working two people stopped by to chat, one is a member who gave me some history of recent upgrades to the building. The rectory is original and the cathedral was built in the 1960s.

Mostly complete.



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I am a student of the Word and the World around us. These TWO BOOKS, World and Word or Nature and Scripture are the focus of these reflections. I am a retired pastor and a practicing artist and writer, now living in LaCrosse, WI, between the bluffs to the East and the Mississippi to the West. David E. Carlson

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