Since we haven't had much of a Winter so far, which is simply bizarre to me - I painted this imaginative one. Southern Vermont seems dark and out of place without snow or frozen ponds scattered about.
It is natural to keep the white of the paper as the snow and paint in the other landscape features. If you play up your dry brush washes it can provide texture in the field in the expression of your grasses, etc.
I find in painting the distant hills it is important to keep the upper areas painted with warm colors. As you work down the hill it is necessary to establish stronger values which are cooler in nature. Then you need a wash to link the whole area together which defines the shape.
This painting was done on 140 lb cold press Arches watercolor paper, which has evolved into my preferred surface.
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