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Skating Pond

By -N- on January 11, 2023

I was never any good at skating, but I did try it out a lot when I was a kid. We moved from a really cold place in the midwest to a warmer climate on the east coast, leaving rural farmland with ponds and lakes for a bit of suburbia in New Jersey. Every year the neighbors would get together and scrape the snow off the nearby lake, test the ice, and create a skating pond. We were never allowed to go by ourselves because of the chance of falling through the ice, but it seems there was always a dad or mom to supervise a dozen kids in snow suits, wipe away our tears, keep us generally under control.

Watercolor, 9×12, 140# CP ArtBeek paper.

Posted in: afternoon, cold, ice, pond, shadows, skating, snow, trees, Watercolor, winter

Chatter Gouache

Frozen Creek

By -N- on March 6, 2022March 7, 2022

A rather quick sketch of a frozen creek . . . later in the day, sun is going down.

Posted in: afternoon, cold, creek, frozen, Gouache, snow, trees, winter

Chatter Watercolor

Late Afternoon

By -N- on January 12, 2020

I’ve been really into doing wet-in-wet watercolors this month, and think it may become a theme for the month of January. So many areas of watercolor benefit from it. Skies seem to lend themselves to it, but so do fog and reflections.

Here, a winter landscape, partly from memories of those lovely, cold afternoons in upstate New York or rural Illinois, when the clouds were low and dark, snow was on the ground, but somehow, the sun made it through, casting shadows and a bit of color on the vast swaths of white.

Posted in: afternoon, cold, shadows, snow, Watercolor, wet-in-wet, winter

Tag: afternoon

Skating Pond

Frozen Creek

Late Afternoon

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