Colors for winter

Actual intense winter seasons remind us of snow filled ground,trees,roof tops and only snow everywhere around. When we take winter as a theme for a painting, normally it will be dominant with white sunlit snow, blue and violet shadows and  bare trees with brown branch and tiny dry bushes here and there. Almost all winter scenarios have them in common when we get a practice on this basic stuffs, we can develop these winter paintings by adding crimson red houses,blue,light gray far away trees etc.

Here is the practice I did to draw a winter scenery:

Four Seasons

Since last year, I have been witnessing the sharp color difference with the climate change. Born and brought up in a place where I could feel only two seasons in a year(rainy season and summer),  when I had to move to a different part of the world it was really treat for the eyes to witness four seasons(winter, spring, summer and fall). Now I am actually understanding the fact that every  scenery is greatly influenced by the time of the year and time of the day.   As I gaze through my window daily, the changes in the color of trees,bushes, plants with season have influenced me a lot. So I thought of picking this topic as a subject for my next oil painting.

I collected photographs of a place in four different seasons. Divided my canvas sheet into four parts, dedicating each to a season and came up with following painting: