It just seems natural to be painting winter scenes while there’s all that snow outside. This little painting (5 x 7 inches) was done with a limited palette (pthalo blue, titanium white, burnt umber, mars black) and sketched in quickly with painting knives and then detailed with brushes. My painting class is going to publish [...]
We’ve just had the first biggish snowfall of the season, somewhere between 20 and 30 cm (that would be 8 to 12 inches). Since I didn’t have to drive anywhere and wasn’t waiting for a bus (transit’s on strike at the moment, anyway), I quite enjoyed the weather. It was a bit of a slog [...]
Looking out the window and seeing the first snows of the season has me all inspired, so I’ve been working on some snow-scapes lately. I’m exploring using painting knives as well as brushes and keeping the size small (5 x 7″ for these two) makes it possible to do more paintings in a shorter time [...]
