Gareth Naylor

Atmospheric paintings of Japan

Category: Paintings of snow scenes

  • Getting depressed over a disappointing painting

    Getting depressed over a disappointing painting

    In January of 2024, I painted a lot of snow scenes.

    If you watch the video, you will see how many – and this is not all of them.

    Anyway, there was one painting I did that was really bad which you can see in the video.

    I felt so disappointed with that picture.

    And then that feeling of disappointment increased and became a deep depression.

    It was so bad that I just put my paintbrush down and went for a walk by my local river.

    This was a good idea.

    I love walking by the river.

    And the sunshine, fresh air and exercise started to disperse that deep depression.

    Then later on, I looked through some of my photos on my cell phone and found an image that I really liked and wanted to paint.

    And this got me to pick up the paintbrush again.

    I think basically I got burn-out with a particular subject matter which in this case was snow scenes because I painted so many pictures of this subject.

    The irony is that after painting a different subject matter, my enthusiasm for snow scenes came back and I went on to paint some more snow scenes.

    How ridiculous is that.

    Anyway, as you can see from the painting above, I did manage to paint some good pictures too.

    Well, that’s all for now,

    Gareth.

  • Painting a snow scene with a warm evening sky

    Painting a snow scene with a warm evening sky

    Out of the blue my sister asked me to make some Christmas cards.

    So I had a go at painting some snow scenes and one thing led to another and soon the studio was littered with snow scenes.

    I’ve never actually painted a snow scene on location so I had none of my own work as a source of reference and instead I had to use a combination of images on the net and imagination.

    One thing I noticed as I looked at images of snow scenes is that they are usually very cool images, the sky is often white or a very cool and pale blue.

    I’m not so keen on that. I wanted something warmer so I added some orange to the sky of my snow scenes in order to warm them up.

    The image above wasn’t the one I chose for my sister as I didn’t think it was cheery enough for a Christmas card; it’s a little too dark.

    But that said I still like it and so here it is.

    That’s all,

    Gareth.

    Postscript

    I originally wrote this story in December of 2014. I kept this painting which must mean I quite like it. Strangely, I can no longer remember the painting that I chose for the Christmas card.