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Lonely Retreat

joha59 09 Jan 2026

My choice of today for this scene is because of the colorful sky. The book version was my main reference. I don't have the book with this scene, but I found online a picture of it (on the side 'picclick' I searched for 'joy of painting VIII' to get some pictures out of the book, a tip for those who doesn't want to buy the book, but see a glimpse of it). I did some little changes: I kept the evergreen smaller, added a little pond and skipped the icicles. On canvas panel of 30 x 24 cm.
The highlight of a little bush can be seen as not intended smoke coming from the chimney, a happy accident!

Oils

Comments

Gorgeous! Absolutely love the colors in your sky😊

Pietro1963 Master of Monsters

Great scene J..Me luvs that Lil cabin..Very snuggly ..cheers.P

Thank you Kerri & P. for your comment!

Such a pretty place!

Really pretty painting!

Top👍🏼🇩🇪🇳🇱

this is fantastic! everything ist so beautiful: sky, trees, cabin, snow! I love this painting!

Thank you very much Stephanie, Chris, Dirk and Myriam!

Great job on this. Nice idea to add some water.

Thanks Tom, the right side was too empty.

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