Introduction

When imagining a winter scene, we usually visualize a scene filled with white. But in the low-light hours of twilight, snow can become a blanket of rich indigo and turquoise blue. Pairing that with the warm highlights of the setting sun reflected on clouds or the warm light emanating from the windows of a house can create a scene that is colorful and expressive.

While this scene could have been painted on any pastel paper, textured ground was used to impart subtle drama to an overall simplified scene of an isolated homestead silhouetted against a twilight sky of winter.