Winter Bench

"Winter Bench"

9x12 acrylic on canvas panel

Available through DPW gallery/auction

Previously painted in 2011, 

this painting is now on a 1-week auction at DPW

at a very affordable starting bid!

This was previously painted for a DPW challenge that required the artist use only 4 values. Loved doing this one! 

Looking through my images I found this one and decided to paint it - using 4 values: the darkest is Paynes Gray, next is Paynes Gray mixed with Titanium White and a smidgen of Light Blue Permanent, next is Light Blue Permanent mixed with Paynes Gray and Titanium White, and the lightest is Titanium White with just a smidgen of the Light Blue mixed in. I left the details out and focused on the shapes only - those of you who are familiar with my work know that I have done "shapes" paintings in the past, so seeing shapes & not objects was the easier part of this challenge.

The scene is from upstate NY at the lake, in winter of course. A heavy, wet snow had fallen & stuck to everything. Our neighbors bench sat in it's place, looking out over the cove, same as it had done throughout summer. Only now it had a coating of snow - I knew I had to paint this scene when I saw it!