Over the years I've painted many illustrations of winter scenes for publications and ad agency work. Here are a couple of tearsheets from a project for Milwaukee Magazine.

A bonus of creating art for a living is it makes you look for the beauty all around us. Every day is a chance to visually memorize the wonder in the "ordinary" slices of life. And then later these slices appear in your work.

While posting this I just glanced out my studio window to my neighbor's beautiful dark blue siding. It looks nice in the spring, summer and fall--- but YOWSA, does it ever shine when snow is glazing all the trees around it. That's one of the "slices of ordinary" I am visually memorizing today.

Happy Tuesday, friend.