Snow On The Palette

by Cooper on 1/15/2010 5:23:25 PMComment on this

Greetings,

Welcome to the Cooper studio, Jefferson, Iowa on a fine Friday afternoon.

This post title alludes to snow on my palette. Possibly I should clarify.

We all know I am not a painter of landscapes (unless they're full of people) We all know I am a summer person, sweating is much preferred over shivering. I am pretty darned fond of primary colors, which last I checked, does not include white.

But. All of that said, there seems to be a snow effect happening on my palette. I keep titanium white there, but it's not been a major player. Until the snow whammed Iowa in early December. The first fourteen inches of the fluffy white stuff landed in Jefferson, and all of a sudden I seem to be running out of white on an increasingly more frequent basis. Another foot of the stuff at Christmas time, and three paintings hop off of the easel with a lot of white on their respective canvases.

I vaguely remember writing about weather effects on painting before, but I think that was lightening and thunder, (ha, here it is) not snow. So do I try to minimalize the snow effect, or just let it happen? Possibly we could call this my "white period" or my "marshmallow time". Here's a good example:

Pete's On The Beach, is an acrylic painting original on a lovely little 20 x 20 inch canvas. I love how this painting finished, but pre-snow, I KNOW I would have painted that umbrella red. If you zoom in on the image, that little banner across the bottom of the sign board includes the words "brew, view, chew". The view is Fort Myer's beach, a very enjoyable place indeed. No snow. Maybe that's why I gave them a little more white :)

Later, Cooper

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