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Sledding in a Snowstorm
watercolor
16x20" matted and framed
This watercolor is unusual for me in
several respects. I usually only work
plein air or in the studio from my own
photographs, but I loosly interpreted
this one from a vintage 19th century
photograph found in an antique store.
Also, I painted it maybe twenty years
after I originally used the image for my
Christmas Card. Lastly, I don't typically
repeat myself in paintings, but here I
did several different sized original
watercolors of the same scene--this
being the largest--as well as a
monotype. I found it compelling, as
have others, perhaps because all of us
in our childhoods have ridden and
pulled our sleds through the snow on a
stormy day. And perhaps too for that
reason people often tell me one or
another of the children remind them of
someone they know.
watercolor
16x20" matted and framed
This watercolor is unusual for me in
several respects. I usually only work
plein air or in the studio from my own
photographs, but I loosly interpreted
this one from a vintage 19th century
photograph found in an antique store.
Also, I painted it maybe twenty years
after I originally used the image for my
Christmas Card. Lastly, I don't typically
repeat myself in paintings, but here I
did several different sized original
watercolors of the same scene--this
being the largest--as well as a
monotype. I found it compelling, as
have others, perhaps because all of us
in our childhoods have ridden and
pulled our sleds through the snow on a
stormy day. And perhaps too for that
reason people often tell me one or
another of the children remind them of
someone they know.
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