Tonight I just decided to start painting a lake scene. I love how Lake St Clair looks when the sun hits is just right- a blue-green color that takes your breath away. Of course, here in southeast Michigan we have really flat horizons with sky meeting water that is not as interesting for me to paint. So I put some mountains in my painting tonight. When I was a child I loved putting mountains on all my paintings so I embraced the child in me tonight and went wild with colorful mountains. If they don’t look mountain-like we can just blame my lack of experience viewing such scenes in real life. Maybe someday I’ll have to travel to the mountains so I can get a real feel for how they look. Until then I’ll just use my imagination.

Do you live in an area with mountains?