Original artwork description:

Freshly fallen snow makes the landscape look pristine and enhances the often drab palette of winter. "Winter Morning on Loma Encantada" was painted outdoors on location and is actually the road I live on in northern New Mexico. My painting position does not indicate how steep the dirt road is (very), but using a panoramic format allowed me to present this very horizontal cross-section of my view. The Jemez Mountains are rising up majestically in the background, reaching above the boundary of the painting, and the dirt road intersects the various planes of the rolling hillside in the mid-ground and foreground.

"Winter Morning on Loma Encantada" is framed and ready to hang. The frame is a black wooden traditional design and has a white linen liner between the painting and frame. I use palette knives and silicon painting tools to apply my oil paint, working quickly to capture my impression of the subject. I enjoy the marks and texture they produce, and rarely bring brushes with me when painting outside. This painting took several sessions to complete, so I was very lucky the snow did not melt right away as it often does at our elevation (approximately 6000 feet) and the light conditions were very similar both days I was outside working.

Materials used:

oil

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