Spring forward

(C) 2015 Dale DiMauro

This is a watercolor I did at the end of last winter. I love the angle, looking up at the house, elevating the degree of reverence to the structure, while the ground drops off the picture in the foreground. The sky lends so much to this picture with the variation of cloud cover and patches of blue contrasting with the faded, barn red color. The snow has a sort of weathered and aged look as it has largely melted off the roof and receded on the ground. Winter is largely behind us at this point, but there is a certain charm in the portrayal of the elements through the subtle warmth of color in the fence and deciduous shrubbery. 

I actually took this photograph after it was matted and framed with glass. Usually, once framed, you get glare from the glass in most photographs. So clearly I lucked out. I really like the charcoal-gray colored frame which you the viewer, cannot see, which makes a handsome complement to the off-whites, earth colors and red of the picture.