GIVEAWAY! "Night Snowfall" watercolor

This little 4 by 6 inch watercolor piece is called "Night Snowfall" and is one of my many recent watercolor projects. Sign up to my email mailing list and get a chance to win it! Email me at benskigurl@hotmail.com with "mailing list" in the subject line. Don't worry, I won't pepper your inbox with endless arty sillyness. I will occasionally send a "new work up in the gallery" notice, or show opening invitation. You can opt out of my mailing list at any time by simply emailing me with "remove" in the subject line.

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I will draw for a winner at noon on Monday October 5th!


Winner will be notified of win via email. Winner needs to email me back with shipping info before October 19th in order to receive the giveaway or another winner will be drawn. Winner will be shipped "Night Snowfall" unframed and wrapped in a protective cardboard square. Contest is open to everyone, however free shipping is for US participants only.

the tough part is over...

Progress as of 11/5/09 Roughed in the shadows for the vines and middle foreground. Tinkered with trees and foliage... Added lots of heavy tones to the old vine itself... Now I think it's time to break out the wine country books and study vine structures. Definitely needing to work on the right hand trees still, they look like one big dark blob... yikes

New progress as of 10/16 (just added it to the post below) The foreground is coming along...

I had a great painting day last saturday! Four hours of painting and I arrived at the fun part, at least for a little bit I won't have to make any tough decisions. I can just happily paint leaves and grasses and mustard flowers and trees for a bit. I'm leaving the forefront and vine until last. The only problem still bugging me is the scale of the trees. My next move will be to do some subtle corrections there...

Old Vine Painting

Little by little....