Winter Haven Red This landscape is based on

This landscape is based on an earlier study

Painted on location in the Great Smoky Mountains during a beautiful July morning

Late afternoon light during a beautiful fall day infused this subject with a glowing warmth that softened the edges of the towering buildings

while we ate dinner at our home in central Pennsylvania

Winter Haven Red This landscape is based onThis landscape is the debut painting in my new series, "What's Your 20?" as I celebrate my 20th anniversary of working as a full time professional artist. I grew up in southern Wisconsin during an era when the daytime high within the first two weeks of January often never crested zero degrees Fahrenheit. I fear no cold weather; in fact, I relish it. To me, there's something restorative about the stripped down, bare bones clarity of freezing