Painting a Twilight Snow Scene on Textured Ground.
When imagining a winter scene, we usually visualize a scene filled with white. But in the low-light hours of twilight, snow can become a blanket of rich indigo and turquoise blue. Pairing that with the warm highlights of the setting sun reflecting on clouds or the warm light emanating from the windows of a house can create a scene that is colorful and expressive.
While this could be painted on any pastel paper, a textured ground can be used to impart subtle drama to an overall simplified scene of an isolated homestead silhouetted against a twilight sky during winter.
Written tutorial with the following learning outcomes:
- Design & composition
- Preparing the painting surface
- Creating an underpainting
- Painting the scene utilizing broken color to accentuate texture, dimension, and drama.
Intermediate Level
Unison Colour pastels
- Blue Green 2
- Blue Green 5
- Blue Green 7
- Blue Green 8
- Blue Green 9
- Blue Green 10
- Blue Green 11
- Blue Violet 4
- Blue Violet 9
- Blue Violet 11
- Blue Violet 16
- Dark 14
- Dark 24
- Red Earth 1
- Red Earth 5
- Red Earth 9
- Red 5
- Red 6
- Red 16
- Yellow 18
- Additional 6
- Additional 11
- Portrait 3
- Light 5
Other materials
- 1/8” Gatorboard
- Golden Fine Pumice Gel (Pastel Ground or Acrylic Gesso can be substituted.)
- An inexpensive paintbrush
- Cup
- Isopropyl alcohol for underpainting
- 1” to 2” wide brush for the underpainting
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