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 Weston
often went on sketching trips with friends, sometimes only for the day
or weekend. After his retirement in 1946 he went on longer trips, visiting
the Okanagan Valley, the Kootenays, and the Yukon.(49) Each of these
new places had different kinds of landscapes. "Weston executed
a large number of quick panel sketches which allowed him to get the
‘feel of the place.’"(50)
"In the summers, he puts on his
plum-coloured corduroy jacket and tweeds and followed by young-bearers
entrusted with his pad and pencils and aluminum chair, clambers
the interior mountains that he loves. His keen hazel eyes, under
their heavy lids, search for his favourite subjects, the wild-armed
pines and the stoic slabs of rock."(51)
His trips were "of crucial importance",
as his drawings provided the material for the larger paintings in the
winter.(52)
In 1958, "sketching at Fernie, his
chair slipped and he plunged six feet into a hole. He bloodied his nose,
let the wind dry it and resumed sketching."(53)
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