Snowy

Snow Covered Mountains, 9 x 12" acrylic on Raymar Panel, ©2015

My goals in this painting were to achieve depth and to contrast the shadow pattern with the areas in light.  It was fun painting snow on the high peaks, something I have not painted before.  This is another landscape painted partially in the workshop I recently took with John Poon. 

A few days ago I could have painted outdoors here in Pinehurst, but now we are experiencing ice covered ground and roads, and a dusting of snow on top this afternoon. I think there will be some warm days, in the sixties, very soon.

I am happy that we have just seventeen days until daylight savings time begins.

Larger Landscape

11 x14" acrylic on Raymar Panel, unfinished landscape with clouds

I find it hard to believe that I have never tried painting clouds until now. I consider them to be a real challenge and I did get lots of help from John Poon in the workshop.  Now I want to practice painting more skies so I can really learn how to make them look natural.

I also realized that I have not painted many scenes like this with mountains, sky, trees, and land. I love painting them but I still have much to learn. I still want to adjust some of the values.
I will be spending the week with my grandkids so there may not be much painting and posting time-we'll see.

On My Easel

This is a painting that I did last week in the workshop with John Poon. I had such fun painting this with all the landscape elements in this scene. It is not yet finished and I plan to do some more work on it.

I used acrylics the entire week and I am still learning how best to use them.

John is an excellent teacher and gave great lectures with slides every day that were chock full of helpful information about painting the landscape. Now I want to spend the next couple of months working outdoors and from  carefully considered photos.

I hope you are having a great week-end, more paintings soon.