Cold winter coming

Sometimes you just don’t know what inspires you about a location, ingredients of a landscape painting, or time of season. For some reason this image really captured me. I really enjoyed painting this old farmhouse nestled back in the graying trees of the landscape in contrast to the tree in the foreground cut down for wood for the expected cold winter ahead.

The grayish colors and glows of just simplified color masses of the background trees to the detailed, higher contrast, more rich colored foreground tree stump added a great special distance in this painting. Allowing some of the surrounding color from behind the house to move into the house added greater unity to this distant spatial plane. I enjoy the subtle color shifts in the grayish tones. It gives the painting a smoky feeling.

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