Winter wo Snow

Here's my most recent winter painting but without snow.  Unfortunately I missed getting out for the few nice days we did have with some snow on the ground.

Tom

January 7, 2019

I painted this in the studio today based on photos and memory from my walk last week at the arboretum.  As Jan Norsetter suggested I desaturated the color so the photos were black and white to help with shapes and values and I tried to remember the clolors.  I find it hard to make skies blue enough with oil paint so I think I will try again with pastels.   I tried to paint as if I was outdoors and finished in 90 min.

8 x 10 oil on paper

Happy New Year and Winter Painting Challenge

I hope all our painters had happy holidays and are getting some painting done now that they are over.  Yesterday I painted this in the arboretum.  Ok, I sat in the car but it is still a plein air painting!  To get the painting year off to a good start,  I would like to challenge DCPAP to post some of their winter landscapes whether they were painted outdoors or in the studio.  Happy New Year to all!!

UW Arboretum  -  Watercolor