Snow Day!

Beautiful snowy day at the homestead...

It was too lovely today outside not to do a quick sketch. I love painting snow scenes, especially when I am finishing a project with lots of outdoor summer scenes!

Finish of Winter

I was waiting to get feeback for the cover sketch on my next book and finished this up while waiting. It is part of a four illustration series based on the four seasons. Here is the explanation and sketch.

Winter Sketch

This is a sketch for a series of paintings I am doing for the seasons. The plan is to make some sort of 2011 calendar on one page with the four paintings. The New Yorker did it so why not?

This is winter so the palette will be mostly monochromatic. Her dress is the hoop underskirt representing the trees without leaves. Fall will be her dress in oranges and reds and tattered and so on... I promise sketching this did not summon the bit of snow we got last night ;)