This is looking like the first in a series of Winter paintings as other ideas have come out of this one for some more. I like the basic simple theme of a place of warmth amidst a cold but beautiful landscape which I think I can develop in different ways. I wanted this one to look really cold, trying to get over the sound of your footsteps muffled in the snow and freezing air with in the distance a promise of warmth and homecoming. A bit sentimental for me? Dunno, I think it has elements of something universal, something that everybody has experienced in the cold Winter months...
Based around a desaturated blue/orange colour complementary, there were only five colours used in the whole picture. The location is somewhere near Pulborough in Sussex UK from a photo I took forty years ago in Autumn, for the painting I made it nighttime and added the snow.
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
There is a short step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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