Snow under pine trees

After returning some books at the library I stopped under the pine trees at the Benny sports complex and made a painting of the snow under the trees. A mild blizzard was going on around me but the copse of trees offered some decent protection from the elements. I started with the shadow under the tree, which was a greyish blue fading to white, then overlaid the tree trunks using a very dark brown, and the needles using yellow ochre. The pine needles were primarily perylene green (PBk31) with some phthalo green (PG7/PG36) and yellow (PY154 or PY97). The background was just daubed in at the end to give some depth and sense of the depth of snow.

Snow under pine trees, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2024