Birch Sonnet - A Work in Progress

This is one of three paintings featuring birch trees that I started today.

The birches were masked out to protect the white of the paper. The background was painted in using various mixtures of raw sienna and Antwerp blue to indicate sky and where some of the trees will be placed.

I still have to work shadows into the snow. I will post this again once I have completed the background,

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.