Lake Minnetonka artists

Entering artist Sandy Resig’s mid-century Minnetonka home is like walking into a modern art gallery.

Step into David R. Smith’s home studio in Excelsior and a framed painting featuring a cluster of pumpkins arrests your gaze. The pumpkins are so vibrant and realistic, you wonder aloud if it isn’t a photograph. You can tell that Smith is used to this question, because he grins and shakes his head. “Oh no, that’s watercolor,” he says, laughing.