Just remembered this little number I snowified. It's based on a spot study done last year and I wanted to see how the colours would sit with snow, based on my recent observations. I was primarily interested in the orange/blue harmonies and did it in a single session using acrylic. I find acrylics good for trees/branches because they generally have less opacity than oils, lending themselves to rapid scumbles/glazes which is good for light coming through branches. The rough gesso ground helps give life to the surface.

I'm actually quite interested in light through trees, even though it's really hard to capture (trees aren't the easiest things to paint). Photos would be useless though as the trees would come out almost black with a bright light behind. Sometimes it reminds me of stained glass windows where the branches are darkened like leading and create little shapes of light and colour. Anyway, I hope to continue with the theme at some point....