Well we got a dusting of snow yesterday. As most of you know, I do not like snow. I do not like the cold. I am a desert person and an ocean person - if I could find an ocean in the desert - that would be heaven - that said - I love to paint snow!!! If I told you that we got enough snow yesterday to do a winter scene, I would be stretching the truth - OK it would a an outright LIE!!! However that said - which I just did - I have no problem evoking my artistic license!!! :>)
This painting was done very, very, very quickly wet into wet on 5x7 canvas panel. This is an exercise in loosening my style and it is overflowing with emotion - expression and spontaneity - the spontaneity was so spontaneous that the painting was spontaneously completed in just about 12 minutes. :>) That is not meant to be bragging, it is to say that the loosening of ones style is in direct proportion to the quickness in which a painting is created. No time to think - no time to plan - no time to spread out tubes of paint - you just go at it with every ounce of vim and vigor in your body and mind. If you don't like the color you just applied, simply change it - reach for another tube. Looseness is uncensored thinking and arm and hand motion that simply happens.
I used my big TVH brush ( I love that brush ) for the sky and trees - the ground clutter was once again done with my fan brush using upward strokes done with stealth like speed - no thought - no planning - just globs of juicy paint.
I looked out the slider in my tiny living room and there are some trees out there on a slope and the trees have a DUSTING of snow (kind of like a dusting of powered sugar) which did nothing for me so into play comes artistic license.
Some people would call this painting sloppy or semi - abstract - there is a fine line between sloppy and loose as well as semi-abstract and emotion. IMHO loose is just shy of sloppy and semi-abstract is cold with very little emotion.
OK - this will be very quick:
5x7 "The Look Of Winter" on canvas panel.
Look what I found --- a blank piece of canvas panel!!!!!!
OK here we go very, very quickly - so fast in fact there was hardly any time to snap photos!!!
The first thing I do - as always in a landscape is to create a sky - I shoot for a semi-winter sky after all it's not a day at the beach!!! :>)
OK - sky is in so now wet into wet to establish the rest of the scene as I see it from my tiny-tiny living room slider.
BAM!!!!! I told you it would be quick!!! I hope nobody blinked!!!! :<) The sky and BG trees done with my TVH brush ( I love that brush) and the ground clutter done with my fan brush in a dry brush application.
For the inquisitive blog buddies - a close up.
Work the day and let the day work you - let some sunshine in and enjoy your being.
Until next time----------
JR :>)
