How about a winter painting post for this second day of summer? This painting, which was in the Paint & Pixels exhibition at The Museum at Indiana University of PA, was recently selected by the museum board for their permanent collection. It is a good example of alla prima (done all at once) painting. It was done this past February in Indiana County. I started it mid-morning and worked on it until mid-afternoon. During that time the shadows shifted a lot so I had to decide at some point where they needed to live. I liked the idea of having to visually "step over" the near shadows to get to the thick tree and the deep forest in the background. The sun was so brilliant that I had a terrible headache by the time I finished. The entire painting process took about five continuous hours and that included an 8 x 10 inch study done first. No further work was done to it in my studio.
8 comments:
What a great study of snow and shadows. I can't believe you completed it in that amount of time! It's very impressive.
Beautiful! 30x40 in 5 hours! Wow!
I am completely impressed! This is a gorgeous painting, and that you did it in five hours just boggles my mind.
A stunning work of art! The fierce headache might keep me from doing this sort of thing again, though...LOLOL I love winter scenes and this one is no exception.
I love the dramatic effects of the shadows against the snow- especially in this summer heat!!!
Very cool! Love your work, Ron.
Snow and shadows... have to agree with Autumn - just stunning!
Just wanted you to know we showed this post during part of the Gettysburg Art Colony this week. Actually the guest Master Artist looked over quite a bit of our blog!
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