Impressionist Landscape Fine Art Painting, Winter Scene, Snow, Trees "Minnesota Winter" by Colorado Artist Carol Nelson

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My back yard is a winter wonderland.

"FEBRUARY MORNING" 12011, contemporary mixed media forest tree abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art

February Morning

I used textured wall paper for the trees.  I like the textured look of the paper.  The background was applied thickly with a palette knife.

This palette is different for me - there's no orange!  Well, there's orange, with white and yellow, in the sky color, but that's really an orange TINT.

This painting is at auction on Daily Paintworks.  Click here to put in your bid, and you might get this 6x6 for $75, which is a 25% saving over my usual 6x6 prices.

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"A WINTERS DAY," daily painter winter snow painting © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"A WINTERS DAY"

I always liked this painting. I think I like it because of the perspective, but also because the scene at Cherry Creek State Park is very close to my home in Colorado.
If the sun is this bright, the cold doesn't seem to matter as much.  This painting is sold, but I have many others on my website.

"DECEMBER SONG," daily painter winter landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Winters in Denver have a good amount of snow, but with our abundant sunshine, it often disappears before too long.  I love the way the sun, being low in the sky, shines deeply into the house through the south windows.

I remember the frigid winters in Duluth, MN, where I grew up.  They don't get as many sunny days as Colorado, but when the sun was shining in my girlhood home, it would come in a large window in the kitchen, stretch across the dining room all the way to the blue recliner.  My Mom kept track of those sorts of things.

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"FIRST SNOW" - 10110, daily painter original landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

This is always a spectacular sight in the mountains when the autumn colors are still on the aspen trees and the first dusting of snow is on the ground. It means Old Man Winter is fast approaching.

This 12x6 inch original oil is painted on a cradled panel. For purchase information, please click here for my website.

If you're up in Summit County in Colorado this weekend, be sure to visit the 27th annual July Art Festival in Breckenridge, July 2-4. I will have my booth set up with this painting and many others.

December Song, 00709, winter landscape

In most landscapes, the sky is the lightest part of the painting. That makes it pretty common to find a light area at the top of the painting. The beauty of painting winter scenes is that the lightest areas are also snow covered so the usual light/dark composition is flipped.

Snow is white, of course, but there is no white snow in this painting. Starting with titanium white, I added touches of cadmium yellow deep, paynes grey, or dioxazine purple to get the different variations of snow color.

I really like these 12x12 landscapes I've been doing (scroll down to see several in Nov and Dec). The trouble is I'm hoarding them. I should take them to one of my galleries, but I can't part with them just yet. They're my children, you know. I have to gaze at them a while longer. My children will eventually be sold.

For purchase information on this 12x12 original oil, please see my website here.

A Winter's Day II, 08408, snowy stream in winter

I've painted this little stream before from a different angle. I think it's all the shades of blue I use for the snow and water that makes is so fun for me. I used combinations of cobalt blue, prussian blue, and ultramarine blue. Also Paynes grey, which is really a shade of blue also.

This painting also has the palette color notes on the side.

Cold and Crisp, 07808, winter mountain snow scene

I like the limited palette and the linear elements of this painting. I was striving for a "painterly effect" with fluid loose brush strokes, but I may tidy it up a bit after it drys a couple days. OK, I DID tidy it up a bit, also put on a very dilute golden glaze (Liquin and raw sienna) on the white areas because the longer shadows indicated it was later in the afternoon.

SOLD

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January 9, 2008, Golden, Colorado

The Coors Brewing Company, of Golden, Colorado, has purchased Winter on Clear Creek, oil painting by Carol Nelson. The company has awarded the painting to a company-sponsored group in Washington, D.C., of Hispanic Women in Business. Purchased through Spirits in the Wind Gallery in Golden, the painting is a winter view of pristine Clear Creek as it runs through Golden.

Carol Nelson is a Colorado artist painting landscapes and a variety of other subject matter. For more information on Carol Nelson, see her website at http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/.

Sunrise on Clear Creek, (SOLD) original oil painting

This is a commission piece of a work I posted on 10/23/07 , click on http://carolnelsonfineart.blogspot.com/2007/10/clear-creek-in-january-8x10-oil.html. The collector wanted the scene to be at sunrise/sunset. The reference photo I used was taken at about 1pm and I was facing east, so I imagine, had I been there at sunrise, it would have looked like this. SOLD

Minnesota Winter, 18x30 oil (SOLD)

This is the scene in my brother's back yard in the middle of a Minnesota winter. I grew up in MN, so I love snow. Here in Colorado where I now live, we get snow, but it doesn't last as long as it does in Duluth, MN. Yesterday was one of those days I love with big flakes falling down. Today is sun and cobalt blue sky.

When I first started this blog, I opened with a picture of my house after a heavy snow.http://carolnelsonfineart.blogspot.com/2007/02/carol-nelson-blog_4487.html

Almost Home, 5x7 oil, (SOLD)

I never seem to tire of painting tracks in the snow. I like the way the foreground of this picture is in shadow. To purchase with Paypal, please see my website, http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/, click on "works," then "small paintings."

Early Snow, 10x30 triptych

I was just messing around with this one. First I painted the three panels with gold acrylic paint. The sheen of the gold shows through here and there, but does not show in this photo.

I wanted to do a stylized, limited palette scene. This painting uses quinacridone gold, raw sienna, red oxide, ultramarine blue, black, white and the metallic gold underpainting. I wanted to use Payne's gray, but didn't have any, so I made my own version with the blue, black and white. The panels look good with a black background, so I will probably mount them on a wood panel painted black.

Winter Twilight, 18x36 acrylic

I have a big outdoor show this weekend. I always have to switch to acrylic before a show because oils won't have time to dry. As a matter of fact, I was varnishing several of my previous posts, and tragedy struck the Bada Bing (see previous post). I didn't do a finger check for dryness, and the red smeared all over it. Dang, that red takes FOREVER!!

But I digress. Today's painting is a landscape done with gobs of the texture that I used on the previous Poppy paintings. It's definately an impressionistic piece and I'm not sure how I feel about it. What do you think?

Winter in Colorado

:Carol Nelson - Blog: "Winter and More Winter
This is a picture of my house and look at all that snow! This is one of the snowiest winters on record for Denver and the Front Range. I grew up in Minnesota, so I LOVE snow and cold weather in general, but, enough already. Usually, the sun comes out after a storm, and the snow melts in a few days. This year, I've got snowbanks along side the driveway that are 4 feet deep and have turned to concrete.
The up side of all this whiteness is that I've gotten some great reference photos for my winter paintings. So far I've painted one with water (Winter Reflections) and one with snow tracks and shadows (A Winter's Day). My only other snowy painting (Minnesota Winter) was from a photo my brother in Duluth took in his backyard.

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