The photo is poor, really. Taken through the car windshield and wet snowfall at dusk, it has a certain atmospheric quality I want to mimic, somehow. The lights seem switched on to over-glow and the colours are grainy and warm.
Winter paintings I admire use soft neutral colour to get the low light areas. John Kasyn, for example, who often shows the unflattering back side of the house on an overcast day. A certain charm is there, in the airing of the dirty laundry and the daily mundane.
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| Preliminary Sketches |
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| First Washes |
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| Colour development |
