Are you ready for winter?

(C) 2014 Dale DiMauro

This is a picture I started very recently, drawn from inspiration from a trip my wife and I took down into Massachusetts, to have her car looked at. Following an early winter storm, the clouds parted, bringing out the sun, while illustrating the fresh snow with its well defined shadows.

To me the composition is strengthened with a lack of trees or other landscape elements in the foreground creating an eerie presence, reminiscent of a Hopper-like painting. There is human presence but no residents are to be found. It dramatizes the time of year when there can be great isolation, and reminds us how a winter storm can suddenly alter our world.

I work on many watercolors at a time, at various scales and states of completion and will post the finished product for your impressions.

Unlike some other artists, I prefer to include electrical and telephone lines in my paintings of houses.  I would be interested to know whether this appeals to other viewers as it does to me.