I know it seems out of place, this painting of snow when it’s Spring (at least it’s trying to be spring!) but I found I had never posted this and would hate to have it forgotten! So here’s a short post about a cold, snowy walk in January! If you click it you’ll see prints of it in many sizes.
"Field at Long Lane Farm" watercolor
I did this little 7 x 7″ painting in my journal while standing in the lane that goes out to the fields on my farm. I love the subtle colors of winter, the red tipped bushes and the cool blues in the snow. On a good sunny day you can have to most intensely blue colored skies and high contrast clouds. Not that you’ll ever hear your weather man call them that! “today there’s a chance of high contrast clouds with rain” hahaha.
Seed heads along the walk
Here are some notes I wrote as I paused to look at some dead seed heads.
Watercolor pan, brush and waterbottle
And this shows you what I used, not a waterbrush but a ‘proper’ watercolor brush, just used the one and a plastic bottle for water. In the winter you can’t use the waterbrushes that are so popular as the water tends to freeze as you paint on the paper.
Hope you enjoyed the late posting…I hope we can all say goodbye to winter weather soon!
Here’s some prints and note cards of this little watercolor in my shop:
Snow Filled Field winter landscape by MaryMcandrew
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Loved seeing this post—what a capture you got!
Thanks Winna, I’m glad I got it up there! better late than never I guess. I have a few floating around that never made it public! I’m happy with it too, just made some cards from that painting in my zazzle shop and think they’ll make good Christmas cards next year! haha..
Well done for standing in the snow to sketch!
Thanks Cathy! I guess I stand all the time when I do my field sketches, it’s more comfortable for my back and many times it’s because of the snow, water or mud! Sometimes I kneel on a plastic bag. It all becomes a balancing act sometimes! 😉 PS how’d you end up in Sicily? Are you in the countryside? Sounds nice!
You’re a brave soul for getting out in that cold with snowshoes…and painting! Wow! I’d be snuggled up in my PJ’s next to the fireplace with a cup of hot tea.!
I love snow scenes…yours is just lovely.
Joan
Thanks Joan! Well if I didn’t go out in winter I’d get cabin fever for sure! Wearing the snowshoes is kind of fun and good exercise. I DO sit by the woodstove when I get in though, don’t know what I’d do without it! Thanks for looking! Hopefully it won’t be until next year when I see snow again.
Lovely pages! Very soft and vivid strokes of colors and lines.
why thanks Alex! I enjoyed doing this little painting especially because I look at it and remember my walk in snowshoes and standing there…water freezing on the paper! haha…glad you stopped in.