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Winter in the Midwest and other places where there is snow is so drab. This picture, "Amboy Friends Church West Tower" was done recently after a heavy December snow. I actually did two of these and will post the other one next.
For an artist that likes color, winter is a very challenging time for me – and snow tends to make that challenge even more exasperating because everything becomes white. This is my very first attempt at painting snow. I studied many of today's plein air painters in the Indiana Plein Air Painter's Association and saw how they avoided using a lot of pure white. Most of the canvas has blue, violet or yellow added to the white areas to create interest. White is used very sparingly in their work and in mine. I have done the same, saving the pure white highlights for the most significant impact.
For me, texture plays a vary important role in this since the color pallet is limited due to the snow. I've used a pallet knife to lather on the paint very generously. And because the pallet knife is used, I can add a color to the white and actually mix it on the canvas – thereby leaving trails of color through the stroke. Be aware that the photo of snow pictures seems to add more blue than is really there in the original and photoshop has only managed to remove some of it.
So as an artist, the whisps of color that drag through the white from the pallet knife and the occasional color from building and trees, seems to satisfy my thirst for color. But I really can't wait for spring and the return of more color options.
Winter in the Midwest and other places where there is snow is so drab. This picture, "Amboy Friends Church West Tower" was done recently after a heavy December snow. I actually did two of these and will post the other one next.
For an artist that likes color, winter is a very challenging time for me – and snow tends to make that challenge even more exasperating because everything becomes white. This is my very first attempt at painting snow. I studied many of today's plein air painters in the Indiana Plein Air Painter's Association and saw how they avoided using a lot of pure white. Most of the canvas has blue, violet or yellow added to the white areas to create interest. White is used very sparingly in their work and in mine. I have done the same, saving the pure white highlights for the most significant impact.
For me, texture plays a vary important role in this since the color pallet is limited due to the snow. I've used a pallet knife to lather on the paint very generously. And because the pallet knife is used, I can add a color to the white and actually mix it on the canvas – thereby leaving trails of color through the stroke. Be aware that the photo of snow pictures seems to add more blue than is really there in the original and photoshop has only managed to remove some of it.
So as an artist, the whisps of color that drag through the white from the pallet knife and the occasional color from building and trees, seems to satisfy my thirst for color. But I really can't wait for spring and the return of more color options.
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