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Original Creation

Miracle Mountain - Bill Alexander

Tom0779 30 Sep 2024

From the book ‚The Art of Bill Alexander and Robert Warren, Series 12‘.
I wanted to do a cold winter scene with just a few colors. So I found this one when I went through my book collection. It uses only 4 colors: Titanium White, Alizarin Crimson, Prussian Blue and Ivory Black. This makes life very easy as you do not need to often clean the brush.
Overall a standard scene with the mountain and the evergreens, which is relatively easy to do. I tried to keep it very loose, like always.
I did not find a video tutorial for this one at Bills Channel on YouTube, maybe it exists somewhere else.
This is oils on canvas Panel 16x 24 inches (40 x 60 cm).

Oils

Comments

You definitely achieve the cold look. I like the way the angle of the mountain pushes those dark clouds right back and allows the white clouds to come forward; great layering and distance creating technique! Probably assisted by that negative blue space in between. That's clever!

Pietro1963 Master of Monsters

Beautiful scene Tom..Love those mountains!

Nice scene,Tom . Good work 👍🏼🇩🇪

Very nice Tom, as always!

Really beautiful Tom!

Frosty 🥶 cold appearance and beautiful mountain Tom ✌️

I love the mood of this one. That limited palette is sublime. I really like the “straight forward” river. Great painting Tom! 🤩

Beautiful Tom

flippergirlpaints Top Event Submitter

Very nice! Looks sooooo cold I do not want to go there!

Thank you Landscapepainter for you detailed feedback. I also think that little blue spot (suggested by Bill, not my idea) is very effective here.

Thanks Pietro, greetings to Italy!

Thank you Dirk as always.

Many thanks Jos for your support.

Thanks a lot Sandy!

Many thanks Brian. It definitely looks very frosty :)

Thanks Nancy, actually I planned to make the river a bit wider but I went crazy with the snow and it got a bit smaller than planned :)

Thanks Cold as always.

Many thanks Pam. The Prussian blue makes it look even more cold :)

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