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This is a plein air (painted on site) watercolor of Big Muskallunge Lake in northern Wisconsin, on a cloudy day near Boulder Junction. It was painted in summer 2014 while I was artist in residence at the Trout Lake Research Station owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is one of the research sites of the scientists doing research on the lakes and surrounding landscapes.

"My visual concerns run the gamut from careful study to poetic, symbolic and sometimes political representations of nature and human nature." Helen Klebesadel is an artist, an educator, and an activist. Born and raised in rural Wisconsin, Klebesadel is best known for her environmental and women centered watercolors. Helen's watercolors push the traditional boundaries of the medium in scale, content, and technique. Her paintings range in size from the intimate to the monumental. She creates paintings that are transparent watercolors on paper, starting with detailed drawings and developing the images with layer upon layer of color washes and dry brush technique mixed with occasional areas of wet-into-wet spontaneity. She paints until...