Stretching my wings

I got a new book about painting in a more abstract style, a theme I have always been interested in but never pursued to the extent I would like.
This is my first painting after reading through one of the chapters about 'visualisation'

It is a view of Pralognan from one of my favourite walks up towards the summer village of Cholliere, the path runs alongside the river Doronne de Chaviere, which in the spring and summer has water of the most stunning colours from the glacier melt.  In the winter the snows colours everything with tint of shiver.


I am afraid my graphic tendencies once again overruled my artistic aspirations, it is definitely more representational than I first intended, but I think it is going in the right general direction.
It is painted with a very restricted palette of Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Permanent Magenta and Indian Yellow and I tried to suggest distance with warm v. cool colours.  To me it looks as cold as the day I walked up there.

Dorone de Chaviere
Watercolour
36 x 26 cms approx
£145.00  matted, ready for framing.

Blanche Neige

 

Out of our kitchen window, looking straight up to the mountain called Grand Bec, there are quite a few chalets on the hillside.
On Christmas Eve, during a brief pause in the snowfall, with low cloud and mist you couldn't see the other chalets, only the one nearest to us, called Blanche Neige (White Snow).
It is the one of the oldest holiday chalets in the village, little has changed inside.

I did this little watercolour painting alongside my mum in my attic studio from sketches we did through the kitchen window and photos I took.  It was too cold to paint outside.
Most of my paintings are now on display in the Vallee Blanche Restaurant in Pralognan, so I do need to do some more to put on the walls of the chalet now that the bustle of the Christmas holiday has slipped by. 


Blanche Neige.
22 x 16cms
watercolour 
£80.00  matted and ready to frame