This is a painting I’m doing on an toned-in-yellow-ochre 8×8 canvas that is one of three cute kids-playing-in-the-snow painting lessons on Ali Kay‘s Fresh Paint site. Unlike the “Rolling Snow” painting I just finished, I have not referred to Ali’s painting or to her video at all. I’m just using her reference photo.

Left to do is to finish the snowman, obviously, and I want to adjust the shape of its head. The girl’s jacket I’ll complete in a lighter brighter red than the red used for the creases and shadows. I had planned to do pink and white striped mittens; I’ve decided to make the mittens all pink.

The boy is basically done, but once I’ve got the snowman complete I will come back and layer more yellow on to the boy’s sleeves and collar, so it doesn’t get lost in the toned background. I may need to adjust the mitten color so it is more clearly a sky blue.