As i have mentioned before, this painting is going along very slowly, for two reasons: (1) it’s a project that i’m not allowed to bring home; (2) the techniques i am learning are taking a long time to get right. However, there is movement. I finally finished, today in class, the upper field, and started working on the trees that will be in the foreground. When you look at the piece this will probably not be obvious — teacher wanted me to start with the leaf canopy (ies), and NOT the trunks of the trees. So, if you look on the upper left side of the painting, you can see some shapes that will, next week, turn into trees. The colors of the “leaves” here are not “true” ; they look ok “live”
LJ and NJ 
Love it! S now in the foreground really captures the light.
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It is surprising to me that he would have you start with the canopy, which looks a bit like a puff of smoke without the trunks to support it. Were you surprised about this approach? I agree with Bern about the snow. It glows!
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Thanks, Mimi. Yes, i was very surprised about this approach, and argued about it — to no avail, of course. The leaves do look weird that way — and it’s only partly because of no trunk. the other issue is that i haven’t reworked the shapes. They should definitely not look so puffy. I ran out of time in class.
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