Winter's Night Canvas Print

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Bare trees of a snowless winter are silhouetted against the starry sky. The clouds seem to reflect the moonlight and cast an other worldly aura behind the skeleton trees.

This piece was done as an experiment to see how far I could go with making watercolor less like watercolor and applying different textures. The result was a surprise and one I decided to try to replicate. For the trees, I used the black almost straight from the tube with just enough water to allow me to use a straw to blow the paint around and then splattered some paint droplets over it for leaves. The effect is one I really liked. I even employed this technique into some of my other watercolors in the "Winter's Possession" series and have been experimenting with getting a similar effect in my digital artwork.

I have been creating art for 20+ years in Southern Indiana using graphite pencils, colored pencils, acrylic paint, and watercolor. A large majority of my artwork depicts nature. I do not think that an artist needs to constrain his/herself to only one style of art or medium type. Ultimately, it is the act of creating something that the artists finds pleasing and then sharing that with others that is truly art. I find it sad that artists segregate themselves into groups that are intolerant of changes. With that said, having been taught traditional and purist art techniques, I have chosen to learn from that and go a different direction. I have been described as a woman of many interests, talents, and hobbies. My artwork reflects my...