I started this when it was a blizzard, the ice crystals landing on my board and palette congealing into little snow balls! I struggled on but the conditions weren’t conducive to say the least!
I went back the next morning and decided to start afresh, new painting same view. So much easier when the weather is a little less extreme. See pic below.
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| Ice Crystals!! |
I have ended up with two paintings of the same view, the first which I have made my main top one. I scraped off what I did when it was snowing and did a fresh layer of paint over the top in the studio and it ended up better I think than the one below. Which surprised me.
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| Second attempt painting |
So I actually painted this view 3 times – first day in the snow second day not snowing but maybe too careful and the third day in my studio back on the first painting! if you can follow all that 🙂
The learning is paint a subject more than once, it really helps to know it, familiarise, relax with it and also not worry about the end result. I thought it wouldn’t turn out so I went for it nothing to loose and it worked!
Things I did differently: pushed the tones to lighter, made the colours yellower and bluer – prettier, freer with the brush strokes, emphasised the foreground tree branches…changed the widths of bands of colour.
A couple of people people kindly took photos of me over those couple of days.
Couldn’t have painted without the brolly while it was snowing.