After two weeks, we’re still shoveling our way out of a persistent white blanket of snow.
Watercolor Wednesday
February 19, 2014
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Comments on: "Watercolor Wednesday" (71)
Wow…One of my favorites here…love it!
I love the freshness of this one, Elena. The blue is perfect.
Wow! This is spectacular. Love it! As do I love my neighbours who shovel their walks. 😉
A gorgeous share. With gratitude, Gina
Much appreciated Gina!
Wooow how much I love this sketch!
An industrious man who removes snow and color is excellent distributed, light and shadow creates apparel of man.
Thank you so much for sharing with us, dear Elena!
Big hugs, Ştefania! 🙂
The colours are beautiful – “brrrrr” indeed! We’ve not had a flake of snow here in Norfolk, therefore I’m quite jealous of those who have!
Be careful what you wish for;) But I agree, a little snow is nice. Thanks Steven!
Wow! The depth of blues and then contrasted with a hint of delicate color in the snow – fantastic shadows and highlights too. 🙂
Thanks Cindy:)
sorry-désolée for the snow, but your painting is simply stunnin’… HL=huge like and congrats… 🙂 admiration and respect, Miss Elena… bonne continuation & cheers! Mélanie
Thanks very much Melanie!
Making a fine job, both of you, of such hard work . . . hope the thaw is beginning now!
I do hope so, thank you Patti!
So beautiful as always 🙂
Thank you:)
Lovely painting Elena, really like the movement.
Thank you Adrian.
Please work quietly because springtime is sleeping below that thick layer of snow.
I will do my best Marcelo:)
Brilliant and blue with cold 😉 Elena ( sorry I haven’t been visiting ! )
Thanks Helen! I’ve been out of touch as well, no worries:)
Looks like backbreaking work. Are you sick of it?
Yup;) I like the snow, but too many snow falls on top of ice. A break would be nice:)
the painting is very realistic!it remembers me my husband two years ago during many weeks!! Good luck, be encouraged!
Thank you Daisy, I shall:)
Tell me about it… 😦 Lovely watercolor, Elena, in a very appropriate hue for these frigid, wintry weeks! 🙂
It’s been a tough winter hasn’t it? Thanks:) Here’s hoping for a break.
I feel for you. It’s been an awfully rough winter.
It has. But the shine is shining today-Yay!
The man is also almost frozen! Perfectly done, Elena!!! 🙂
I hope it clears soon…
Thanks Marina, that’s my poor frozen husband:)
I see you’ve found a method to keep him young and fresh!!! 😉
What a super image – full of energy and effort.. Wonderful rhythm and sense of movement. No snow here yet, but lots and lots of water!!
Thanks much Louis. I guess there’s something to be said for easier removal if the liquid is more solid. Not easy either way unfortunately.
we haven’t received any here! would love a little. Love the painting 🙂
Happy to send some along;) Thanks!
Great! I can almost feel how hevy the snow is on the mans shovel.
Yes, very wet, heavy snow. Thanks Jess!
Love this painting. it looks like everyone in my neighborhood lately.
I imagine it does:) Thanks Carol.
But we like it white, don’t we? Super strong image-I think I recognize that shovel…
We do like the white, but a break from it is welcome about now:) Thanks Amal-yes, I imagine your blue shovel sees a lot of action too:)
That’s just perfect, Elena, wonderful!
(It seems your shoveling man is a bit blue…. 😉
Yes:) Many shades of blue. Thanks Karen:)
You are so good at these gesture paintings. I do admire your talent.
So lovely to say. Thank you:)
Elena, you turn adversity into creativity…stay warm lovely. 🙂
So sweet to say Jane. More like guilt that my husband did most of the work:)
Lovely! The way you incorporated snow into the folds of the coat is spectacular, Elena.
Thanks ever so much Millie:)
awesome 🙂
Thank you Starseed!
The snow is beautiful, though I’m sure it can get tiresome shoveling daily. I am so happy the sun is out. It’d been missing for what felt like weeks. I’d only be too happy if at least there was a blanket of snow for some beauty! 🙂
So true. I really do enjoy it, but at this point it’s too much of a good thing:)
Perfect Elena – the figure position it just shows the heavy job of removing snow. Wishing you an early Spring, it has to be right around the corner.
Spring sounds great. Thanks Mary!
How appropriate. How does one draw someone dying of thirst, for all of us in California?
Oh how we’d love to share piles of snow with nowhere to go:)
props to your watercolor skills
Thanks Ross-better than my shoveling abilities;)
I don’t remember this particular modeling session, but I suppose it could’ve been just about any day in the past few weeks.
Oh yes:) Watch out for the ice:)
Love how you go with the flow! Stay warm!
I’m struggling with it, but trying;) Hope you stay warm as well!
Well, I see you took advantage of the scene around you very well!
Thanks Palmira:)
harumph! (giggles) i thought i was going to drive my son 90 miles to Occupational therapy but NOPE, the crackle and crunch of sleet pinging off of the window and now a coating of ice on the flowering sand cherry outside of the window…
I must say though, that the ice is the type that has the bubbly fog appearance on the branches, perhaps I might slog through the snow later to get an image. it’s right over the buried in snow Green Man. I wonder if he should like it if I dug him out.
I know! A real complication every day in every way, but it is beautiful.
yeah, the sun is out the sky is clear and blue now, and it’s all sparking and now dripping 😀
Here too! Just came in from moving the slush around;)
This painting is beautiful! The shading, motion, everything!