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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