Light in Landscapes
Capturing Winter's Glow
Painting Mountain Landscapes Through Shifting Light
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I have been taking courses online from two watercolour masters: Kolbie Blume and Ilya Ibryaev with the focus on painting light. I have always been inspired by how master painters can capture light by leaving areas unpainted and allowing the paper’s natural glow to shape their compositions. This is the beginning of a new journey for me, as I return to landscapes and see how my style will grow and change with this new learning.
These first paintings are winter scenes, each capturing a different time of day— the soft glow of sunrise, the crisp clarity of full daylight, and the quiet mystery of starlit skies. Through these studies, I’m exploring how light transforms a familiar landscape of mountains, snow and pines, revealing new moods and stories with each shift in time.
Sunrise on the Gardens - 11X14 framed $225
Morning Glows on the Slopes - 9X12
Golden Hour - 11X14 framed $250
Night Arrives Softly - 9X12 unframed $150
And then I Become the Teacher
Guiding new art travelers through the luminous world of watercolor.
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​I had the honour to join a recent women's retreat hosted by Dee Rock of Untamed Tours at Cameron Lake where I met a group of wonderful ladies and taught watercolour painting using these images as inspiration.
Check out my blog post here (titled the same as this section) to see some of their paintings - some who had never tried watercolour before - and a few shots of me out on the frozen lake enjoying the sunlight.