Just popping outside of my office in the late afternoon I made a quick painting of the path cutting through the deep snow. A rock and a few trees, along with one of the campus building in the background, completed the scene. The snow had a subtle glow of orange-yellow light from the right due to the setting sun, and a bluish shadow from the left and top. With all the salt they added to the path it was shimmering and moist looking. To get the nice pine tree green in the tree, I mixed shadow green (PBk31) with a heavy dose of yellow (PY154). Its tempting to use green paint to do a pine tree, but in fact these trees are more of a dark yellow, leaning to olive green. So shadow green plus yellow is the best option. Some 'blue pine' trees just require the shadow green alone, no yellow, with a bit of dilution with water. The path, by the way, is orange paint (PO62) with black paint (PBk6) and splashes of blue (PB15) and clear water.
Path through snow, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2025
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