Colours of Winter

I've been very naughty and failed to keep this blog up to date.

The assignment over the Christmas/New Year break was "Have a look at how artists use colour in winter scenes, from old and modern artists, particularly Monet. Do your own observations of wintry visual matter and make your own studies or piece of work."

Here I have painted the same scene in different palettes. #1 is how I would have approached this. #2 and #3 are after looking at several of Monet's paintings, particularly his studies of haystacks in different lights and in different seasons. #4 is influenced by a painting by Diana Moses Botkin I found on the Internet.

The general view is that #3 and #4 are best. The next stage is to paint a different scene using one of the selected palettes.