Cherokee Dogwood - Brave- Blushing Canvas Print

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This is an image of an original oil painting 12 X 36 on canvas. Many thanks to Mike McGowan for allowing me to use his lovely photographs as a reference for this painting.Deservedly one of the most popular American Dogwoods, Cherokee Brave, it offers a bit of extra beauty for every season. Large red blooms, spring and fall foliage changes, and ornamental berries all contribute to its popularity as an understory or specimen tree in the landscape.

The foliage opens with burgundy and maroon tones overlaying the green. By summer it is entirely green and very dense, but it turns brilliant maroon again in autumn, remaining for weeks before dropping for winter. Very showy!

Fall color of the Cherokee Brave Dogwood is a consistent red to reddish purple. It is a small low-branched tree with horizontally spreading lines, and a layered effect, usually with a flat topped crown and often wider than high at maturity.

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Jan Kornegay Dappen is a self-taught artist. She is originally from Columbus, Ga and presently a local Ellijay artist living in the North Georgia Mountains. She is on of the founding members of the Gilmer Fine Artists Guild, now called TAG, Secretary of the Gilmer Arts Board and Chair of the Golf for the Arts Tournament-New Gallery Building Fund. She loves painting en Plein Air and always participates in the Art, Plein Air in the Mountains event the third weekend of May every year.Jan primarily works in oils but also teaches classes in Acrylics. She has been recognized locally and internationally for the following awards: 2024 - LOBSTERING AT SCHOODIC POINT- 1ST Place, Gilmer Arts Juried Exhibition Competition in May, Ellijay, Ga....