"Fresh Tracks" 8x10 Snowy Forest Landscape Painting Countryside Scenes A bachelor group of mule

A bachelor group of mule deer bucks heads to water on their way to bed beneath the grandeur of the mountains

I've either hadn't had a camera handy

Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin for me personally

Those moments are what inspire me every day when I step into my studio to create and it's what I was thinking about when I began this painting

"Fresh Tracks" 8x10 Snowy Forest Landscape Painting Countryside Scenes A bachelor group of mule"Fresh Tracks" I started this painting after taking a hike through the mountains nearby where I live. We had just received some snowfall which is a pretty common occurrence around here and something I'm fairly used to but every once in a while these moments arise where I'm just completely taken back and this was one of them. We had come around a couple corners on the trail and I began to notice the light shining through the trees and it was starting