Carrie’s Painting of the Week, 2/15/10
Snowstorm!
By Carrie Jacobson
I love to paint snow. It quiets my paintings. The white areas shift the focus, bringing out the color in the rest of the world, without intensifying it. On a gray, snowy day, the sky and the earth seem to match, lending a mood and a distance and a softness to the landscape. I love the way the snow sculpts the facets of the earth, covers the details, softens the edges.
Painting in a snowstorm is not so much fun, though. The snow gets in the paint, and makes it like sand. So in the snow, I paint fast. And in a cold snowstorm, even faster!
Come see my work and Shawn Dell Joyce’s work in person! “Celebrations” opens at the Wallkill River School Gallery with a reception on Saturday, March 13, from 5-7 p.m. The show will be up for the rest of the month. The gallery is at 232 Ward St. (Route 17K), in Montgomery. Check the website (to the right, on this page) for directions and details.
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