There is a certain enchanting beauty about a heavy snowfall
on evergreens at the end of a winter’s day. I wanted to capture the peaceful
quality of a northern Canadian landscape since this is where I’m from and we
certainly have had a peaceful and long winter this year, which has brought
several inches of snow although I am getting rather tired of the snow at this
point in the year. This will probably be the last snow painting that I depict for
a bit and plan on painting other subjects including a few spring landscapes if
I can find the proper references or the wherewithal to paint.
I rarely talk about the actual application of
the pastel however it might be interesting to some so…Many pastelists like to
use harder pastels in the beginning and layer the softer ones over top however
I don’t really like the hard pastel I have well enough to use them so I move
straight to the Girault which are medium hard to the really soft one’s like
Ludwig and Unison and keep layering until I either achieve what I want or I run
out of layering surface. I don’t bother with an under-painting or anything
fancy. It’s better to concentrate on things I need to work on improving such as
the values changes, composition and color application.
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Early on a Winter's Evening
Etsy |
