Red House in Winter

Artist’s Note:  This is a view, done from my studio window. Snow is both positive and negative, and is difficult to paint because it is whiter than the white of the canvas. The only way to get the illusion of more whiteness is  to provide enough contrast. The two trees, the red house, and the pale distance provide that comparison.

 

 

Blue shadows are almost a cliche, but in this painting they emphasize the brightness and the coldness of this day.

Here in this view of First Avenue in New York, the snow is coming down, obcuring and blowing.This small canvas is one of my favorite snow pictures. I could not go to my studio in this storm, so I painted from the living room window on a small canvas that my daughter provided.

Cold, but bright. Even the red feels cold.

The wind is blowing, and the snow is coming down, Horizontal marks make trees, contrasting with vertical marks which make fence.

Second Avenue looking east from my studio. This is a large painting with very simplified shapes.

A Snow Painting from New York. Snow is very beautiful to look at; everything is clean and the colors fade out in aerial perspective. The snow fills the space and shows the volume that it occupies.

 

I was intrigued by the snow plows parked near the bridge. They seemed like giant shells

Here is one of those wonderful shell shaped snow plows, yellow against the blud of the background bridge.

Here, in this view of Astoria (NYC) snow fills the air and simplifies the shape. It makes its volume visable.

Two sheds, covered in snow and backlit by the late afternoon sun about to set.

This is Alaska, a quick pen and ink sketch of cold water and snowy mountain.

This was a wet and unexpected snow in June. A lush green the day before is now all shades of white.