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September snowfall
Watercolour, crayon and computer
Charlene Brown
I painted this a few years ago from a photo of famously-turquoise
Moraine Lake, taken after an early snowfall
before freeze-up. The painting was nowhere near as spectacular as you’d expect,
because the sunlight wasn’t strong enough to cast nice sharp shadows. The only good
shadow reference photos I was able to find were taken in summer under a much higher sun. So I decided to make some up.
In order to keep my options open, I put in the shadows on this
jpeg file only… the original is still its same old flat white self. Someday, when I’m a little surer of the
shadows, I’ll use actual paint (Daniel Smith Moonglow, I think) instead of
just Photoshop Polygonal Lasso Select>Edit>Fill.
