Finally I got to paint this scene for myself. I made 6-7 of them in acrylics as baby shower gifts and wanted to have one for me.
I knew it will be an easy one in oils. But somehow I decided to make my life miserable and went in using Liquin as my medium. First two hours went quite well, even I really struggled to create a beautiful distance. And I conquered this Liquin. At that moment I was proud of this achievement and told myself that I somewhat harnessed Liquin.
Third hour was a combination of poor decisions: I decided to add snow on my beautiful bare trees. That was it. Failure.
I learnt a lesson. Without proper planning and sketching/digital help and rushing to finish will not produce good result. The final result I got : I killed all the distance by this big tree and snow became way too much.
Live and learn :)
Oil on A3 canvas; limited pallet madder lake, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre and burnt umber.
It looks really nice 😎Good work Sunny👍🏼
@Paintingblondie - thank you for your encouragement! You are very kind!
It was more beautiful coz I worked to implement what I read in John Carlsons book for two hours, I saw what effect those principles have and somehow decided to put that stupid snow on the trees which covered all that beauty. I am not mad/sad/or anything rather than need to get ready for another landscape to implement those principles once again. 😂
Somebody here was upset about making mistakes when repeating the scene. So what I can say even after 6-7 repeats they still happen. We just need to change point of view and start seeing what is success.
This painting still have few successful decisions that were not covered :)
@Dirk- thank you!
This still came out very nice Sunny. I can see much of your bare branches through the trees. They are indeed beautiful.
@Tony - thank you so very much! this was one of couple of times when I liked my trees. Totally do not understand how on earth I decided to add snow.
What's not to like, this is so beautiful, somewhere I'd take a really early morning walk, the trees, their trunks, the snow and shadows,the sky and reflection are fantastic. Really really love this one 😁🖌️🎨
Beautiful painting. The snow on the trees reminds me of an early snow here in Idaho before the trees have lost all their leaves.
I see the snow on the trees as heavy frost and I think this painting is beautiful!
It is nice
@Nivek- thank you so very much! I am so happy to read your comment!
@ Stickpeople - I thought about that early snow on the trees too to make piece with myself. I am glad it is actually real thing and not only my imagination. I will google photos from Idaho. Never been there.
@ Cronenberg - thanks! I am so happy so many people like it! It is a relief and I will varnish it.
@coldethel - thank you!
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It looks beautiful to me! Maybe you're just too hard on yourself as so many of us are?