Late Afternoon Shadows

(C) 2014 Dale DiMauro

I love the late afternoon shadows after a fresh snowstorm where the snow is wrapped around everything. You can feel the temperature in the ground shadows and the various blue pigments yet warmth in the sunny areas. I painted this on a 12" x 16" Arches block I got at Michaels. It is a coldpress paper which offers some texture which you can feel in the foreground where the snow is piled up. If I am not mistaken, I only used four pigments in this painting - cobalt, ultramarine blue, raw umber and payne's gray.The treeline really made the house come forward. A fun painting to work on.