Early Morning in Winter, Bayport Road

Besides trying to get away with the least possible work or thinking, the main purpose of this piece was to explore the differences in colors between the sky and the shadows on the snow. I was up when the sun was just coming up the other day and noted (again) how the lightest of blue-green skies contrast with the dull blue grey of the snow in the shadows. This piece is an attempt to capture that effect. I was using a small brush to make the sky less boring, but that didn't work as well as I wanted. And well, this is one of those paintings that doesn't photograph well either, so this photo result is less than accurate. I had to go out into the snow to take the picture and it was snowing, so I didn't feel like trying it again. That's my story anyways. But you get the idea.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

The Old Woman and Her Dog

Oh, why not? Hardboard and acrylic paint are cheap enough. Really this is more iffy than the last post, but it does have a nice simplicity about it.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard.

Moonlight and the River at Wovenlay Park

This is a somewhat more tamed version of last night's painting. It's a little more literal interpertaion of what the title describes than the original version. The place comes from a previous picture somewhere in this blog, and was more or less what I was aiming to paint at some point in this painting, though far from what I started out to paint.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard