OSWOA - Winter Forest 1

This painting was originally called Blue Sky 1 (see post on 22 December 2011) and I have changed the name to Winter Forest 1

I lightly indicated in pencil, where I would like to have the larger trees and where the distant land would be placed.














With a pale mixture of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue and raw sienna I put in the distant evergreen trees.

With various mixtures of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I started painting in the tree trunks, keeping the more distant trees lighter and less detailed and having the closer ones darker with more bark texture.













Once all the trees had been painted into the picture I started putting in the various grasses and growies around the base of the trees and in a few areas in the snow.

For this I used mixes of raw sienna, burnt sienna, alizarin crimson and French ultramarine blue.













If you would like more information about OSWOA please go to my post on 12 March 2010.

The OSWOA shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $40.00 and sold unframed.