Cardinals and Mailbox

This little painting was just and Idea to get a some "winter" or Holiday feeling.

I started with ultra marine blue, and payne's gray, with the blue green for the tree.

I took a few dots of red for the birds. and then painted white gauche for the snow.

The composition is all wrong everything is in a row and laid out on one plain. the sky is uninteresting.

The exercise of the painting and incorporation of the gauche in the tree and foreground is the purpose of this whole project.  Practice and experiments are a large part of painting.

Leonardo as well as other painters did hundreds of little "what if " paintings. It is said that under the Mona Lisa there is several layers of her picture. In fact one of the trials has her with a mustache! That is how you learn and pick up some amazing ideas doing a what if painting.

So lets try a few crazy painting.