Winter scene

 

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.