Snow....

I've been waiting for taking nice picture of snow scene around here since last year. But we haven't had enough snow.

Maybe enough through the night but when I get up in the morning and ready to go..... always half melt or start raining and doesn't look beautiful anymore.

So, I decided to paint the first LITTLE snow we had in this year before having "ENOUGH SNOW".

Add a bright colour

Once in a while, I feel like adding much more bright colour in my painting rather than only
" blue and green".  Here they are vivid orange.

I always see this tree in my neighbours when I go for a walk.  I haven't notice it becomes such a beautiful colour in the fall. Because most of the fall I wasn't here but in Japan.

I was lucky enough being here to see all the beautiful colours in Squamish in the fall.

I was going to paint only one painting but made two. One has a little bit more leaves than the other. Well, it happened accidentally, anyway.

Cascade

When I saw some kind of ivy flowing down on the tree, I was so impressed how beautiful they are.
But "painting those ivy" is totally different story. How can I paint so many leaves? And can I make it like flowing down tree? Well. let's try.

I started this scene at the end of September, 2012. Then, of course, I demolished 2 canvases. Finally the third canvas survived and I think I finished painting and titled "Cascade".  I've already had a title before I started this painting.

Yes, this is the first painting I finished in 2013!