Spring Snow Shadows Apr 2, 2018
Are shadows really a deeper blue during Spring?
Maybe it’s because the sun is a little bit warmer.
Maybe there’s a fascinating scientific explanation.
Or maybe it’s just my imagination.
No matter.
When it comes to art, “Maybe” works for many questions.
12X16
Oil on panel
Beautiful time of year and you captured it!
Thanks Chris!
A beautiful reminder that we are on the threshold of a new season!
Thanks Kim!
Beautiful colors and very artfully composed – love the “sunny disposition” of this painting!
Thanks Carol!
Makes you just want to travel down this road! Beautiful.
Thanks Debbie!
Your work is wonderful, Peter. Thank you for sharing your images on Facebook.
Thanks Marilyn!
Love the composition, the colors, the feel of this wonderful painting.
Thanks Susan!
No maybe about it, Spring Snow Shadows is stunning.
Thanks Chris!
Peter, you are a poet as well as an artist.
Thanks Evie!
Maybe it’s simply what you see you shadow lover you! Thanks the joy of your vision.
Thanks Beth! A favorite quote…. “What one sees depends mainly on what one looks for.”
One of my all time favorites due to deeper colors.
Thanks Jane!
One of your best. Love this painting!
Thanks Diane!
I love this painting: so snowy, but so hopeful of melting! I especially appreciate your posting the onsite photograph and the preparatory sketch. I’m learning about composition, and it’s so helpful to see how you translate a scene into a work of art.
Thanks Gretchen, you are wise to use the word “translation”. It’s that process that gives us freedom of personal expression. That’s Art.
Love love love this painting (as my Grandsons would say) . I too appreciate the sketch and photo, am taking a watercolor class and learning new things from others all the time. Appreciated seeing some of your originals Thursday evening in Springfield at the Vault Gallery, what a lovely artisan shop ! I foresee future visits there, was nice of you to extend the invitation .
Thanks Ann, and thanks very much for coming to the Vault opening!
A Monday morning beauty.
Thanks Maureen!
Definitely one of my new favorites! Did I miss seeing the location of this lovely painting?
East Wallingford Judy, tx!
Beautiful as usual. Just got a photo from my
friends in snow covered Simsbury, CT. They are
ready for Spring & Summer. Love your work and always
look forward to your posts.
We will appreciate Spring when she arrives, for sure. Tx Sandra!
Hay Peter ! ! ! This is a KILLER…WOW ! ! ! TOO TOO GORGEOUS.. BRAVO ! ! !
Thanks Alice!
Beautiful painting! As for the snow shadows, I think the seemingly (and probably real) intensity of the blue is the result of reflecting a blue sky overhead, and also changes in the crystal structure of the snow as it compacts and begins the accelerated process of melting under a long-awaired spring sun.
Thanks Brian, sound theory!
The blues are so pretty, Peter.
Thanks Ann!
This is the kind of view that makes us think maybe winter wasn’t so bad after all!
Thanks Betsy!
Peter this is perfect! You capture Vermont and share it beautifully. Thank you.
Thanks Michele!
I could comment on every painting you paint, they’re all beautiful. But this one, this one Peter, is my all time favorite so far. Everything from the perfectly colored blue sky and clouds, the perfect shadows, the muddy tracks on the dirt road, to the red flag on the mail box. I wish I had expendable cash, I’d own this one.
Thanks Bob!
What’s that? Deep winter just in springtime? Really, the shadows are deeper and the contrast is sharper. Many years ago we travelled in Austria and Switzerland and we had snow in June. It was very hot in the sun but from time to time a snowstorm drived us into sure places. It was a journey full of surprising events just like your paintings. Everyone is waiting for the springtime and winter remains on and on.
Thanks Doris!
very nice, spring scene/landscape. I agree snow surface different in spring…Shadows on my property seem more dark than bluish.
Thanks Robert!
All your paintings remind me of my life in Vermont.
You certainly capture all the beauty
Thanks Paula!