Painting: Iowa Homestead - Winter
Media: Acrylic on Canvas.
Size: 16x20"
Date Completed: February 27th, 2007.
Signature in bottom, right-hand corner.

Image at left is approximately 25% of the original painting. Selected details below are at 100%.

Artist's Note: This painting will deserve good lighting to show off the subtle shades and hues of the sky - something the image to the left fails to capture.

    "The rich black soil of the Cedar Valley is the first to lose its snow whenever winter temperatures rise above freezing. Furrows plowed the previous fall are the first to emerge. Whatever remains of snowdrifts in roadside ditches, are the last to disappear in Spring.
    "Toward evening, after the sun sets, or as in the painting above, when a high, thin, atmospheric cloud-covering filters the sunlight from the landscape, only the starkest contrasts are left behind - all of which can be quite beautiful."