This beautiful morning I followed the plow into this park and liked the look of the fresh snow hanging on this tree.
This beautiful morning I followed the plow into this park and liked the look of the fresh snow hanging on this tree.
I like the angle of the bridge in the composition and the play of the bright snow to the trees. The light was very bland on this day and it forced me to look at shape, color and composition to come up with a scene. It was peaceful.
Fences provide directional lines and a foreground. This was a beautiful morning and I pulled into the park right after the truck with the plow had paved a way to get in. The snow was deep, fresh and coated the landscape.
This was a particularly hard day for me to find a painting in the landscape. The lighting was very even, however, I took the challenge and was fairly happy with at least three of the four paintings of the day. Here is a quiet scene of the bottom of a tree in the snow.
At the edge of a city looking out at nature and the remnants of Winter snow. I was interested in the expanse and the open feeling of the scene.
A day or two after “Before the Snow” I went out and painted the scene after the snow. It was a warm day for snow and I enjoyed the clouds in the distance while my foreground was in sunshine.
This forest of trees caught my eye because of the implied natural pattern in the trees and foreground grass. It became an experiment in pattern and texture.
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I was interested in the layers of this vertical scene of the foreground brush, fence, field, and distant hill.
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It was a cool morning and the snow had started to melt.
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I turned around after painting an early morning painting and liked the subtlety of the blue shadows of foreground snow and the distant mountains. I decided to use my palette knife to accent the close snow with thicker, textured paint.
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