The first version of this neighborhood scenery sometime in February 2025 drew comments on the dog and her walker. The rest of the painting was a major application of white or lightest values to show it was a heavy snowfall. I was not able to show the silhouettes of the houses across the street nor did I highlight the bodies, the leaves and the trunks of the 2 trees. Thus, when I prepared my painting stuff into my 2 paint bags, I picked up this February painting with a plan to improve the values and create an acceptable Andersonville snowball winter story. During the Saturday class of July 19, I converted the 12" X 9" into a square 9" X 9" by cutting the top 3 inches of the paper which showed the painting of the curtain like mini canopy of the pine trees of my house & my neighbor's. The removal made the composition easier to arrange. I added the bike & stop sign at the top right empty space. I defined the houses across the street and added the blue car on the left. I added the turquoise shadows of the dog and the walker. And then I have the revised snow scene of July 19! Happy Painting!
Lovely....and that snow doesn't look so bad when it's 90° outside for days on end! The soft background and color palette really feel like a cold snowy day--that and the posture of the main characters. The cropping works, too. It's such a gently intimate scene of city life in winter.
ReplyDeleteA little vignette of life in the winter in the city. Priceless.
ReplyDeleteSo funny to see you painting a snow storm in the midst of our heat wave, but rather refreshing too. I think you captured the scene and the cropping helped do it. As well as indicating the background buildings. One thing that catches my eye is the darkest element in the foreground that the dog seems to be looking at. What is it?
ReplyDeleteLove the way you created the snowy feeling. But I’m with Pat— what is that dog looking at?
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