October Landscape Studies

Out my studio window

there is one of those

light and fluffy
Christmas card snowfalls.

So here's a little nostalgia

 for that change of season

just past.

Two pastels

describing the beginning

 of winter.

First Snow

Our first snow was early and arrived 

before the autumn colour had faded. 

The contrast

gave me a chance 

to highlight the juxtaposition

of warm/cool colours.

A wind storm then stripped the trees

 of their warm hues

 and the whole atmosphere

cooled my color palette.

Early Snow

Finally a couple of field sketches

on black drawing paper (Canson).

It was an experiment

 to see if the black /white contrast 

captured that quality of a dusting of first snow.