Great Smoky Mountains No. 9 - Jade Nashville A vibrant storefront combined with

A vibrant storefront combined with brilliant sunshine and dynamic shadows framed this pedestrian perfectly in Center City Philadelphia

This was a fun painting to create

But my favorite passage in this subject is the sky: A beautiful natural backdrop to all of the manmade drama below

and when I paint these subjects my mind is filled with the sound of the rushing freshwater

Philadelphia

Great Smoky Mountains No. 9 - Jade Nashville A vibrant storefront combined withWhen I was in elementary school, we had several outdoor recesses. That was good! The bad thing was that wed all come in wired up from subzero Wisconsin windchills and then our poor teachers had the unenviable task of calming us down to focus on the next lesson. My favorite teachers read to us for a brief interval. During those story times, I would pull out a sheet of paper and draw while listening to the story. To this day, Ive maintained a dual track