The Lake at Lucerne, Switzerland, 2004, watercolor on paper.
I did this on a misty gray day while traveling in Switzerland during my Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship. I was near the lakes edge in Lucerne painting and taking in the beautive view before me. As I painted, I realized that I had inadvertently become part of the travel experience of several tourists behind me. I overheard some people whispering and the "click" of cameras, so I turned to see what it was all about. What greeted me as I turned was a smiling group of Asian tourists who were apparently fascinated about being in Europe seeing an actual European artist at work. Since we didn't speak the same language I couldn't tell them I was not European
and that I too was fascinated with being in Europe. Of course I could be completely wrong. They may have just thought I was Brad Pitt.