Red Leaf in Winter Canvas Print

Last winter after our first snow, I took pictures of one red maple leaf frozen in the snow. Shortly it was covered with another snow. Mid February, some of our snow melted and there lay that single leaf still bright red. Snows came again and covered the leaf. Late April as the last of our snow melted the red leaf still retained its color until the wind swept it away.
I painted the leaf with Dr. Ph Martin Hydrus Watercolor on 140 lb. Arches hot pressed watercolor paper.

Bonnie Young connects to rural life and landscape because they reflect her roots. She discovered the love of painting the light and shadows and their effects on her subjects as she studied nature. For her, painting is an artistic articulation of life captured in watercolor or digital creations. Watercolor allows her to build depth and detail through layering glazes. While still attending elementary school in a one room schoolhouse in the Nebraska Sandhills, she began painting. For most of her adult life, she lived in the midwest and west. She studied art at Kansas State University, the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio, and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado. In Colorado, she studied under Janet Nunn, an award...