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| Snow Painting |
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Blessings and warm wishes!
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| Her set up |
A client has commissioned paintings of her house in all four seasons, all of the other three are done with only winter remaining which has been awaiting a little bit of winter. We have definitely received our "little bit" today! Painting in the snow is definitely a new adventure for me.
Once I made it up the long steep drive to her house, it seemed all would go well. Just as I was set up, it began snowing, well, snowing up a "storm"! I spent a little over an hour on a little 8x10 that I will use for a color study back in the studio. I figured out a way to perch my umbrella to shelter palette, painting and my favorite easel contraption. (But there was no so shelter for me, ha!) Even so, there were snowflakes literally in my paint piles on the palette, all over my brushes, and mixed into the painting itself for good measure. Every 10 minutes or so my umbrella needed a good shaking out, along with my hood and bodily person.
Would I do it again? Absolutely, yes! I always love the mishap, haphazard type of adventure that comes along with the plein aire painting territory. In spite of my tea spilling multiple times, cold and stiff paint, much slipping and sliding, and a tricky set up and tear down, I did get what I needed. It is not extremely polished, but I've got colors from life that will help me to hopefully capture the correct atmospheric conditions and general feel for the final version later.
Here is her later post with the final version:
Elkridge in Winter
Here is the finished painting
that I mentioned before in my blog. The study for this was done on
location in the snow, which was a fun haphazard adventure. The other
three commissioned paintings from each season are on my website.
Hope you enjoyed her Snow Day. If you would like to see her work go to:
Charity Hubbard
Hope you enjoyed her Snow Day. If you would like to see her work go to:
Charity Hubbard
