As I embark on this new American landscape series the next one will be a cabin in a dark forest for which I had an idea how I could paint the snow covered ground in a different way. I decided that I would do a trial run first with a smaller painting which could double up as my painting for next month's slot on Every Day Original and thought that it would be nice to return to a Japanese theme. As it turned out the new way of painting the ground didn't work so it's just as well I did this trial painting first as it saves me loads of time and grief correcting that on a larger painting. The light area at top right was originally just an afterthought when I was doing the underpainting but as it progressed I liked the almost mystical light it had and decided to make that area lighter and the rest of the painting correspondingly darker to emphasise the lighting. I wanted it to look freezingly cold (Samui Fuyu means Cold Winter in Japanese) which is how it has turned out.
One handy bi-product of this was the discovery of some nice colour mixes based on adding white to the basic underpainting mix of Dioxazine Purple and Burnt Sienna which I may well use on the upcoming widescreen painting.
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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