New Winter Landscape 12x16

A_Time_To_Paint

This was started last year, put aside when a health crisis struck my partner, then picked it up when cold weather set in and finished it up.  Using a free reference photo from Pixabay, I cropped the photo and needless to say did not copy each and every branch of the trees.  Then came the trouble of the reflections in the water.  I opened my painted image in the photo editing program and flipped the image vertically.  I then used that to transfer branch reflections onto the water from what was painted above.  It was fun and really like the composition and atmosphere.  With posting on social media, I got an inquiry on price and have a conversation going with a potential buyer.  Critiques are always welcome.  Happy New Year all.

whunt

Lovely @A_Time_To_Paint.

Csontvary

This is beautiful!

tassieguy

Some lovely colors in the sky, @A_Time_To_Paint.  I think you got just the right amount of detail in the trees. I especially like the trees on the horizon - the way they are set aglow by the sunset. That stream looks cold!   The reflections of the trees read right. It's a lovely painting.

The only thing you might want to check is the yellow glow on the snow at left. Is it a bit strong? it might be just the camera. I always have trouble getting the colors right with my camera. 

GTO

Beautiful winter scene.  Love the trees and their refylook great.

MichaelD

Beautiful work @A_Time_To_Paint, I love the delicateness of the branches and the reflections.

I agree that the snow on left maybe too yellow, though maybe its like that in your source.

Great news about the potential buyer. 

outremer

@A_Time_To_Paint , that's a piece of winter beauty! I do not think the yellow is overemphasized, that color can be real sometimes. Plus, @tassieguy never gets snow over there However, the ref photo can be indeed too digitally enhanced.

Some tree branches are a bit of artificial looking, like of one at the far right, some go in perfect parallel. Wondering if on the photo it was like that...

tassieguy

@outremer, no snow in Tasmania?  We're at 43 degrees south! Winters can be hard here with snow at sea level.
I did a whole series of Tasmanian snow scenes for my show last year. 

See here: Winter- Kunanyi - 30"X40" - OOC — Draw Mix Paint Forum

https://forum.drawmixpaint.com/discussion/13933/plateau-wilderness-36-x-36-ooc#latest

https://forum.drawmixpaint.com/discussion/13639/kunanyi-winter-2-38-x-36-ooc#latest

outremer

@tassieguy , oh thanks! As you rightly point in another thread, most including me tend to think there is no snow in Australia. Well, my joke aside, I'd still insist that in EU or NA we surely get more variety of snowy weather and light (on snow) and more time to enjoy it. When shoveling.

MikeDerby

I love the trees.  I have struggled to pull off a similar scene but you nailed it.

Romans611

I love the trees and the lighting. Looks cold outside.

adridri

Painting has a lost of mysterious things that remain mysterious untill we understand them. Winter trees are still mysterious to me, I have never been able to make a sense of bare messy intertwinned branches, this require a thorough understanding of value structure and transitional values. You have succeeded beautifully in this, which I admire very much. Your neutral sky is very subtle, I love your color variations with the violet and turquoise. Is it phtalo? Congratulation, it's beautifull.

heartofengland

Lovely.

The horizon light and the bank / reflection on the left are the stars.

Has the translucence of porcelain.

toujours

I agree, you have handled this well.  Congrats, with a buyer.
I am falling in the camp of toning back the yellow reflections on the snow.
I really like the distant trees, and the sense of brrrrrr, it evokes.

A_Time_To_Paint

I want to thank everyone who stopped by and commented.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading all feedback, which is very helpful to me.  The trees on the right are not copied from a photo but ended up as observed by @outremer a little too uniform.  That is so hard to break sometimes when painting or drawing.  Our mind wants to organize things for us.  The reflections in the water on the right is something I'm not very happy with and will probably redo them.  They are too thick for the trees above them and should be smaller.  The reflections in the snow are that bright in my reference.  I may need to use a higher chroma yellow in the sunset to get the reflections to make sense.  My favorite part of the painting is the distant trees closer to the horizon and the tree on the left.  

I really, really appreciate all the positive comments as well as the helpful advice.  You guys are all the absolute best!

Abstraction

This is the best I've seen of your works. It has a wonderful crispness and clarity to it that's very pleasing. The play of those definite dark lines against all the softer light space is very strong. I think the sky is dreamlike, the distance and the sense of distance beckons the eye. And your eye can't help but be pulled all around the painting - such is the strength of the design. And it's rewarded with little niches of details. The warmth against the cool has a genuine glow - and gives one of those painting opportunities to just put down very beautiful colours.

sridhargopal

Beautiful work