Watercolor snow

It’s been snowing and blowing for weeks here in western Pennsylvania, with temperatures below zero some nights and highs in the teens. What better time, then, to paint snow-covered evergreens? I have two different techniques for painting snow on evergreen trees. Here’s a condensed version of the instructions for Technique #1 – click to enlarge […]

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In this post I'm going to look at two examples of how I paint icy winter landscape scenes in watercolour and walk you through them step by step. In these

I have to admit it was a relief when it snowed last night. The fresh white stuff covered an awful layer of thick ice that coated our city and made (dog) walking treacherous since last week. I couldn't wait to get out to paint this morning, while the snow was still fresh and clean. This…