Lake Michigan color study art

Full disclosure: this is my art and Etsy shop! Earlier this year, I was living in Chicago and burnt out. I hadn't been able to create anything for myself in months. Then on a whim, I decided to start painting Lake Michigan each day to capture how its colors change from day to day. After making several of these paintings purely for myself, I got brave and shared it on Substack. To my genuine shock, it went viral. People with ties to Lake Michigan from around the world saw their own experiences...