After dealing with some eye issues it feels good to be back painting. The dry heat in my house has given me some dry eye issues. Dry eye therapy drops have helped but there is still irritation. Getting outside every day helps a lot, too.
With limited snow on the ground it has not been an inspiring winter so far. I miss the snow blanketing the landscape and all the neat light patterns that come with it. The freshness of snow with it's drifts of accumulation along with reflections across frozen water and in windows has been a distinct regional characteristic.
This watercolor is painted from memory weaving many experiences cross-country skiing in the local fields and hills of Vermont. It has the dense evergreens in the distance buffering the winds and the small frozen ice pond in the foreground with it's windblown surface and scraggly growth on the shoreline.
I like the under wash of alizarin crimson showing through in certain areas. Also, the varied light I find interesting
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