Finished & Signed

(C) 2018 Dale DiMauro

With the help of Gerarde Doucette, my art mentor, this watercolor is finished. The shadows in the foreground were simplified and edged in a way to make the contours of the snow suggest shape. It was more about extending the values than adding any color. This simply makes the land more legible.

On such a hot spring day as today it feels refreshing for me to look at this watercolor. The composition conveys a calming quality. I don't know if it is sun on the tree trunks and snow or the space between the trees.

Where to sign a painting and with which color is a challenge in of itself at times. I chose a sepia as a color which echoes the values in the tree trunks for signing my name. It was also signed in the shadows as not to compete with the light on the snow.