A Late Winter Afternoon

When I lived in upstate New York, the winters were marvelous! Hardwood forests and pine trees all worked together to create a magical land of light and shadow, rolling snow banks, and winter streams frozen and thawed and frozen again. The skies, too, were amazing in their coldness of light that could reflect so brilliantly on the snowy landscape.

As an adult, snow as a place to live, work, and travel in no longer holds much allure – great to visit, but don’t ask me to wade through it, chisel ice off my windshield, or shovel it just to get out of my house. Still, the memories of those magical winter days in deep winter always hold a spot in my heart for their crisp and intense beauty.

10×14″ Arches Rough, watercolor limited palette of umbers, quin gold, ultramarine blue, and a touch of titanium white gouache.

13 thoughts on “A Late Winter Afternoon”

  5. I just read your post about locking your mother out of the house! Brr! As a kid, I lived in rural Illinois, which was a damp cold in the winter, unlike the dry cold in upstate NY. I am now in SoCal and like the winters a lot more as an adult – rain, not snow. But the beauty of a crisp winter day remains one of my favorites.

  6. I am right there with you, Anne! Snow in small amounts – and then definitely cookies and coffee. Maybe pie?

  7. Thanks, Laura Kate. It’s always interesting to me to see what a person likes – all, part, and so on. I like those squiggles, too, now that I am looking at them more closely!

  8. Thanks, Fraggy! I like that part, too. The middle ground is a bit overworked – but that’s watercolor for you – once down, done.

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