UPDATE - 10/24@11:01AM: The auction for Alex's painting has just ended with a winning bid of $12,011 CAD!!

The Kidney Foundation of Canada's annual A Brush of Hope charity auction fundraiser kicked off yesterday and Alex Lifeson is once again one of the many Canadian celebrities participating by donating their original paintings. Alex's painting for this year is a 10x14x1.5 birch plywood panel, acrylic collage titled Self Portrait #2, and is now listed on the auction's ebay.ca site here with a current bid of $2137 CAD (thanks RushFanForever). Alex has participated in the auction nearly every year since 2006, including last year with his painting 20,000 Feet Over The Sea which ended up selling for nearly $9600 CAD! The Brush of Hope online charity auction will run through October 24th at Noon. You can check out and place your bid on Alex's painting along with all the others at this location. For all the latest news and information be sure to follow A Brush of Hope on Facebook.