Surviving Winter
Perspectives from The Artist's Road
We really enjoy painting outdoors during the winter, even though we don’t necessarily like the cold! Dressing properly helps make the exercise tolerable. The light in winter is worth it and when it snows, the bare, snow-covered landscape provides lots of picture-making opportunities. Lately, though, the country has been in a deep freeze—way too cold to paint for us, even though the light has been wonderful. So, stuck indoors, we turn to whatever is going on outside our big windows for subject matter.
Fortunately, we live in a forest, so the wildlife is abundant and active, especially the poor birds who contend with wind and extreme cold. To help with that, we have several seed and suet feeders out, and this helps keep our populations healthy through the winter. As important as food, though, is an unfrozen water source. We put a heated dog water bowl on top of a snow-filled birdbath about 5 feet from our windows downstairs and the birds flock to it throughout the d…
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