The poetic landscape around me has always started many of my designs. Came across some lovely snowy px from La Basse Cour, on FB. A picture perfect farm in all seasons, right in my backyard.
Just have to sit down and play with some images from my archive. Focus is such a constant struggle for me, feeling pretty happy with
Love to paint, but some days, it's hard to get going. Revisiting some oldies...
via Photoshop! |
| fine art with winter holiday elements |
The many faces of winter offer grand opportunity to play with color temperature & purity. The snow is a mirror for the subtle atmospheres that surrounds it, from pure warm and cool colors of a bright sunny day to the subtlety of a snowstorm.
A tranquil little scene after a snowfall.
I like to start my drawing on tone paper, so I can use the sepia tone as my middle value.
After a simple outline of the bench, I draw & shape the bench with a kneaded eraser. I use 8B graphite to work in the darker values. Touches of white oil paint to indicate the snow.
Beauty in a little drawing, sometimes, it's that simple. "The world is full of magic" WB Yeats
Another contemplative meditation on the process of painting. After many days of endless grey, the sun finally show up!
Frosty Pink is the perfect name to describe this hue. The pink sunrise glow melts into different shades of browns, pretty quickly.
The days are so short that the light outside my window changes pretty fast.
Always a good idea to have some pre-mix colors for my nocturne... the winter landscape can be monotonous, but the sky can offer me endless color combination to play with.
Nothing more inviting than greenhouses full of Hybrid Anemones & Rananculus in the middle of winter. |
| self serve fresh blooms in the cooler |
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| red & white, nice contrast |
