Finishing touches

(C) 2018 Dale DiMauro

This is a watercolor I worked on this winter. To me it summed up the extreme cold we had over the holiday season. I heard the weatherman on the radio state that we had some twenty days since the temperature was last above the freezing point.

It had been nearly four months since I last saw my art mentor, Gerard Doucette. With his input I addressed some final details. These included filling in more of the apple tree, above on the left. This gave more variety to the skyline. The silhouette of the figure was refined as aspects of the anatomy weren't quite right. Last, but not least, I signed the painting.

Signing a painting is always a challenge. The act of signing the painting is simple in itself. However, determining where you should place your signature and how big to make your writing our questions that run through my mind.