LJ and NJ

I’ve started a couple of new paintings. After all that bright, varied, colorful fall project this more austere picture somehow appealed to me. The sky provides most of the color, with the snow and ice providing quite a contrast. As usual i’ve struggled with the building, but it’s now better than it was. Just doesn’t work for me to draw buildings free-hand: again with this one had to go in and figure out vanishing points/perspective —after first go-round had dried.

The canvas i chose created another issue, in that apparently i failed to pretreat it with gesso and so it took 3 rounds/layers of paint just to get the snow to look vaguely white instead of a pale burnt sienna (which was the underpainting ).

There is quite a bit to do yet to manage to convey some better reality to the snow/ice and to handle the reflections of sky in the water. More to come…….