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John Preston
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 3:46 pm: |  |
Eric's right, it does allow for nice color. Actually we get cold more than snow here, but it's great when we do get it. I like being able to put all the light colors on the bottom half of the picture; Landscape is usually light up and dark down. |
Eric
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 1:40 pm: | |
Greg, snow is tailor-made for watercolor. Lots of colors are reflected. Shadows are usually blueish or blue-gray, but there's room for artistic liberties taken as to colors in the snow.
I always liked John Pike's snow scenes. He was from upstate New York and painted that area in the winter a lot. "John Pike Paints Watercolors" is a great book.(out of print) Zoltan Szabo has a lot of snow scenes and good "how to" information in his books. |
greg
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 11:15 am: | |
the other day I was out walking the dogs, and the
snow covered ground was amazing. It was around
6:00 PM and the snow was reflecting the pink, violet
sky, it was incredible. How can you capture that
convincingly? sp? It is not often when you get a chance to paint the ground pink. Maybe John has some insight, living in Iowa....I know it sometimes snows
there...:) |
greg
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 10:18 am: | |
what is the best way to paint snow?
It is very luminous at different times of the day,
glows beautiful color at dusk and dawn.
how do all of you handle it? |
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