One of the things that's easy to do from a snow-bound studio is stand at the window and splash down some watercolors. A little over two weeks ago we had an epic snowstorm--not like the one in the northeast US a few days ago, but close. Afterward I painted the view downstream on Druid Hill Creek from a north studio window and posted it here.
Although we haven't had another comparable snowfall, I wondered what we might have in store before winter begins to shuffle offstage. One of last year's sketchbooks was useful to review. Last year almost to the day, the creek looked a lot like it did after the big snowfall. When it isn't frozen solid the creek flows dark as coffee and the banks are pillowed in several inches of snow. The bare trees make a tangle against the pale colors of winter. I looked ahead to mid-February of last year to see what the world might look like in ten days or so.
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| Late January, 2020, Druid Hill Creek, watercolor on paper |
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| February 15, 2020, watercolor on paper |
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| Late February, 2020, watercolor on paper |
I suspect the groundhog saw his shadow. Anyway it seems to me that the best we can hope for is bright sun and cold days through the rest of this month, before the sun gets warm in March. That is, six more weeks of winter.
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