Winter series #5

After that short break with the Orange and Glass series, I am back to the winter series now. Two people walking on Hauptstrasse, Walldorf. With this series, my main motive was to bring about the contrast between the backgrounds and the people. I felt this was somehow lost in Winter series #4, as the whole painting became much more vibrant than I planned. To tackle that, I did a light grey glaze on the entire background with this one. That I felt muted the background well so that the figures stood out in contrast.


Winter series #5
Acrylics on Canvas, 8 * 10 inches
Copyright Nithya Swaminathan

One of the artists at WetCanvas felt that it looked strange that people were carrying umbrellas in winter. So to make the reason explicit, I have tried to indicate in this one that it was still snowing as these pictures were taken and that's why the umbrellas. I have added random strokes to indicate snow, I hope it works well. Everyone except me was with an umbrella I think!

This series is not yet done, I have a few more coming. They might take a while though, my subject for the coming week is some luscious apples and I have a couple of other projects to complete too. So the snow will await its turn.

Winter series #4

Latest installment in the ongoing winter series. Your comments are welcome.

Winter series #4
Acrylics on Canvas, 18 * 24 cms.
Copyright Nithya Swaminathan

Winter series #3

Two women walking, sharing an umbrella. Made a lot of changes to the original photo, basically having fun. I am not very satisfied with this one, as I was in a hurry. Since the daylight lasts only until 5.30 pm or so, I kinda hurried up to complete it and click a snap. Will revisit this tomorrow and post an update. I think some colors need to be pushed a bit.

Your comments are welcome.

Snow scene #3
Acrylics on Canvas, 8 * 10 inches
Copyright Nithya Swaminathan

Winter series #2

Here comes the second installment in my winter series. Two people walking as it was snowing. The colors of their jackets and umbrellas were different in real and I have changed those to make them brighter. I want to push the contrast as much as possible, without exaggerating it. I have used quite a bit of greays in the background buildings so that they seem muted.

Snow scene #2
Acrylics on Canvas, 8 * 10 inches
Copyright Nithya Swaminathan

Winter series #1

As I had mentioned earlier, I had taken quite a few references of people in the snow. I am starting a series of paintings of people with snowy backdrops and this is the first.
With this series, I aim to
1. Bring about the contrast between the bright colored jackets and umbrellas of people, against the muted backdrop.
2. Paint as many figures as possible, in varied postures (mostly walking though), thus helping me to enhance my figure drawing skills.

Snow scene #1
Acrylics on Canvas, 8 * 10 inches
Copyright Nithya Swaminathan

Your comments are welcome.