No Plow Yet

 

No Plow Yet

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas

$150 unframed (no frame necessary)

This little piece was painted in response to a call for a black & white themed art show.  Painted without many values (just black, white, and maybe three narrow midtones), I very much enjoyed using the occasion of a dark, snowy night street scene illuminated by a single street light. Only the immediate area below the lamp, the surrounding snowflakes, and the icy wires glisten in the stormy darkness. I found this to be a fun challenge for me to try and express a lot with just a little information. Those who live in northern areas with snowstormy winters will truly appreciate both this imagery and the title.

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Where Winter Listens

 

Where Winter Listens

8 in. x 8 in., acrylic on canvas panel

$200 framed

Inspired (instigated?) by a call for art for a show featuring black and white works, this landscape is actually done entirely in Payne's Gray and Titanium White with a few touches of Mars Black. It showcases a range of subtle value shifts to create a sense of space, distance and atmosphere, and felt good to paint; an excellent stretching exercise for any artist to practice care and deliberation in values.  Beyond that, I like the feeling this painting creates of a silent, snow-blanketed landscape in winter, and the suggestion that it might even be still snowing that tiny, fine kind of precipitation that loses the shapes of the far treeline into low visibility.  It does feel like winter is straining to hear any sound, doesn't it?

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