Painting a winter scene in watercolour does not take too long, as the white paper does most of the work.
I painted this from photos of a few years back. This house has since been torn down and rebuilt in a different style.
The pink house makes a nice warm contrast to the cool winter colours.
I painted the snow on the fir trees in two different ways:
- by using white oil pastels on the two small trees and
- by leaving gaps of white paper on the big tree on the left.
To achieve the wintery branches of the trees in the background, I split the hairs of a Chinese brush before dipping them in paint and applying gentle upwards brush strokes.
A new year has begun; let's hope that this is the year we can finally get back to a more normal life.
This is the same park but with a view of the church.
