Montana painter visits Havre

Missoula-based painter Laura Blaker visited Havre Tuesday on her trek to paint every main street in Montana.

This was her first time in Havre, Blaker said, adding that she couldn’t wait to visit Havre Beneath the Streets.

Blaker, who studied drawing at the Florence Academy of Art, has been traveling across the state for the last year and a half, taking pictures of main streets and then returning to her home in Missoula to paint them.

It has been a long and expensive process, Blaker said, adding that along with traveling and painting, she has been helping her daughter get ready to move to Paris...