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I painted this from a watercolour book I bought on Amazon. I think the artist was Gerald Green. I love winter scenes.
It's amazing what just a few strokes of a brush can suggest. I'm really not one for detail, I don't have the patience. Most of my paintings take me about 30 minutes. I prefer to paint fast and loose.
In many of my winter paintings I try to limit myself to just 3 colours - Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber and Ultramarine. A limited palette lends itself towards a more harmonious painting.
Snow scenes offer a wonderful opportunity for counterchange - light against dark. The most obvious use here was to make the trees behind the farm as dark as possible to emphasize the white of the snow on the roofs.
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I like the drybrushing on the trees. What make of paper do you use? It seems to have a very rough texture.
I buy my paper from artdiscount.co.uk I copied and pasted the description below:
A pack of 100 sheets of Fabriano Watercolour paper. Features :
Woodfree with cotton content
Acid Free
280 g/m² (130 lb)
Not surface.
Thanks Steven, I'll have a look at that. I'm using Fabriano Artistico Rough and Bockingford Rough at the moment.
I'll look through my photos and sort out some good ones.
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