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2.6.24 Tuesday - Re-Acquired Paintings 3 and 4 of 10 This week I’ll be sharing two pieces of original artwork per day, pieces I’ve just recently re-acquired from exhibitions, or no longer in direct rotation for some of the more competitive show opportunities I’ve been pursuing. While the work itself isn’t brand new - what I’ll be offering this week will be a bit of information about how the pieces came about, or other tidbits about each. All the pieces are, as of this writing (the previous week), available through my website store. Additionally, if you ever see something on my site yet you cannot find it in the Available Works section of my website, just ask me about it, by replying to one of these emails, using the contact page of my website, or sending me a new email at David@DavidOSmithArtist.com Today’s pieces: “Plein Air, 2.22.22, Snow”, watercolor and white gouache, 18 x 24”, 2022 This piece is maybe the last time I really used any photo reference to augment a predominantly plein air piece. I was so eager to paint the snowy view outside my window on a cold day in February of 2022. Getting snow in Seattle has always had a lot of novelty and joy for me, since childhood, because it is such a rarity. I knew I’d have to work quickly, so I began with large washes of color to establish the snow-gray of the atmosphere and leave the white of the paper in the foreground of the lightest snow-covered roofs. As the snow melted and the day grew brighter - I had had the foresight to take a picture of some of the outlines of the houses on the hill, and worked towards the end of the piece from those reference photos I had taken - mostly to get the shapes of the buildings accurate. The piece to me doesn’t feel like a work from a photo because it was still 50% or 70% done en plein air, from life, and only touched up at the end from my photo reference. Still, this was to be just about the last time I really used any photo reference for this kind of work.
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